Health visitors play a key role in identifying babies who have missed their newborn hearing screening, or who are suspected to have acquired hearing loss. Hearing loss may be permanent or temporary and can occur at any time throughout childhood due to a range of factors, including illness or infections, head injury, certain medications, or noise exposure.
iHV Resources
📃 Good Practice Points and Parent Tips
Developed in collaboration with topic experts, health visitors, and other professionals, our resources draw on the latest available evidence at the time of publication. Each resource is produced through a robust quality assurance process and peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, relevance, and strong alignment with health visiting practice.
