{"id":541,"date":"2026-08-07T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/referral-pathways\/referral-pathways-audiology\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:03:50","slug":"referral-pathways-audiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/referral-pathways-audiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiology: Referral Pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-green-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making a referral<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">If your resident does not currently wear NHS hearing aids, ask their GP to make a referral to Audiology.&nbsp; <br><br>Many people who can&#8217;t hear well but have no aids may have used NHS aids in the past but these have been lost.&nbsp; Please consider contacting Audiology to check if they are under our care as we may be able to easily replace lost aids.<br><br>If they have NHS aids, contact the Audiology Department directly .<br><br>For all hearing aid repairs and yearly maintenance, contact Audiology directly.  We do not send automatic reminders for hearing tests or maintenance.<br><br>If hearing aids are lost, please contact Audiology to arrange replacements.<br><br>If NHS hearing aids are no longer required, please return them to Audiology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-accent-green-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to contact Audiology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Please visit our webpages for information on how to contact us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.nhslothian.scot%2Faudiology%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAudrey.Pringle%40nhs.scot%7Cba8282b81cb84e0ee4ea08deeee576fb%7C10efe0bda0304bca809cb5e6745e499a%7C0%7C0%7C639210866466610242%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=eWaDZzrFq6dXKMDg9Hj9AolUKvEh5ta5pv2iQ2Nggaw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Adult Audiology \u2013 NHS Lothian | Our Services<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a referral If your resident does not currently wear NHS hearing aids, ask their GP to make a referral to Audiology.&nbsp; Many people who can&rsquo;t hear well but have no aids may have used NHS aids in the past but these have been lost.&nbsp; Please consider contacting Audiology to check if they are under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/mainmenuvertical.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/author\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Making a referral If your resident does not currently wear NHS hearing aids, ask their GP to make a referral to Audiology.&nbsp; Many people who can&rsquo;t hear well but have no aids may have used NHS aids in the past but these have been lost.&nbsp; Please consider contacting Audiology to check if they are under","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14740,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions\/14740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/carehomes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}