>> The digital aids from NHS are perfectly adequate and free and you are properly assessed
No good for a former colleague of mine. He had to go private in the end. Cost him £5000 for his hearing aids. Fortunately at the time he was still in employment and work paid for one of them after arguing for safety reasons he needed to hear properly due to the working environment he was in.
Since then, he's retired, and has recently had to have a new pair of hearing aids costing him over £4000, which came with a remote control that does all manner of things so he taylor them to his needs. eg, in a cinema, in a crowd of people, and answering the phone.
and then there is the added expense of batteries every couple of weeks, and also having regular visits to the hearing clinic to have them recalibrated, serviced, etc.
And they're not even waterproof!
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