Gareth Iacobucci , 2025-04-16 15:20:00
The UK government has launched an independent review to examine how hundreds of children in England were given a misdiagnosis by NHS hearing services.1Camilla Kingdon, a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, will lead the review of how service failures in paediatric audiology led to many children’s hearing tests not being conducted properly or followed up effectively.So far, 107 children have been found to have been given a misdiagnosis from 2018 to 2023, and a further 2000 children are being re-examined.2Commenting on the launch of the review, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said, “Families across the country have been let down by unacceptable failings in paediatric audiology, exacerbated by a culture that has buried problems instead of tackling them.“NHS England has been recalling children for testing as quickly as possible, and…
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Senior paediatrician will lead review of “unacceptable” hearing test failures
