Lawyer has two-year wait for hearing aids

A solicitor is forced to take an assistant to help her in court while she waits up to two years for a hearing aid. Trainee lawyer Helen Abraham, 23, struggles to follow court cases and tribunals becasue she is hard of hearing so has to be accompanied by a junior member of staff to help her fill in the parts she misses.

Helen, of Hollycarrside, Sunderland, was diagnosed with hearing problems last year and is on the waiting list at Sunderland Royal Hospital to have two aids fitted.
But, as revealed in the Echo this week, patients are having to wait 18 months to be seen at the hospital's audiology department.

Source: Sunderland Today