Audiology
Overview
Audiologists carry out a range of tests on adults and children to determine the presence, nature and extent of hearing loss and balance disorders, enabling accurate clinical diagnosis in a range of hearing related conditions.
We provide hearing assessments for people referred by their GP or ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors at Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, Edgware Community Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. For those patients who choose to go ahead with a hearing aid, we arrange comprehensive hearing aid fittings with a range of modern digital hearing aids fitted to exacting standards.
A further role is the long-term management and rehabilitation of the hearing impaired and those with tinnitus many of whom require the support of hearing aids/communication equipment and counselling with respect to their hearing loss or tinnitus.
Contact
Do you have an appointment?
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Barnet Hospital
Wellhouse Lane
Barnet
EN5 3DJPatient enquiries: 020 8216 4912 or 020 8216 4600 x64912
Fax: 020 8367 7328
rf-tr.audiologyadmin@nhs.netAudiology at Barnet Hospital can be found behind the main reception. Our department is open from 8am-6pm.
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Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
Enfield
Middlesex
EN2 8JLPatient enquiries: 020 8375 1117 or 020 8375 2999 x51777
Fax: 020 8367 7328
rf-tr.audiologyadmin@nhs.netAudiology at Chase Farm Hospital is located on the first floor, zone N. Our department is open from 9am-5pm.
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Royal Free Hospital
Pond Street
London
NW3 2QGPatient and GP enquiries: 020 7472 6318 or 020 7794 0500 x38171
Fax: 020 7472 6811
rf.audiology@nhs.netAudiology at the Royal Free Hospital is on the first floor at the back of clinic 5. Our department is open from 9am-5pm.
Referrals
Referral details
New patients
New patients who would like to use our services should arrange an appointment with their GP and request to be sent to us.
Direct access appointments can be made by a GP writing a referral letter directly to the audiology department or GPs can book patients on the departments’ e-referral system. This type of appointment is only for adults who are concerned about their hearing but have no other ear-related problems.
Existing patients
All patients who have already received hearing aids from the Royal Free London's audiology department should contact the department directly for an appointment. If hearing aids are faulty or broken, please attend the hearing aid repair clinic at the department that your hearing aid was issued.
Hearing aid lifespan is approximately four years, therefore patients who have hearing aids older than four years and patients who have not had a hearing assessment (hearing test) within the last four years will be advised to get a GP referral in order for us to reassess their hearing thresholds and discuss their amplification needs.
To simplify this process, the audiology department is able to send a letter to the GP. This letter should be signed by the GP (any wax removed from patients ears as requested) and faxed directly back to the departments.