Good Practice Guidelines

In 2001 Stuart Gatehouse was commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department to produce guidelines for the National Health Service in Scotland for Good Practise Standard for adult hearing aid fittings and services. Subsequently a working group of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology has been formed to expand these guidelines outwith the context of the National Health Service in Scotland to embrace healthcare delivery systems internationally. The intention is to produce a set of guidelines which can be used as a framework document to develop practise standards tailored to individual healthcare settings. The initiative is being carried forward under the auspices of the International Society of Audiology who will ultimately ratify the guidelines. The current draft guidelines are under consideration by the executive board of the ISA.