Christmas and New Year Hours 2022-23

A PDF copy of this announcement can be downloaded here. Christmas and New Year Hours 2022-23 SCIP offices in both Wellington and Christchurch will close at 5.00pm on Thursday 22nd December 2022. Both offices will re-open at 8.30am on Monday 9 January 2023. Some restricted services are available during office closure, except weekends and public…

SCIP Recipient Survey 2022

The SCIP is running a survey for adult recipients, and families of children using implants. We’d really like your feedback on our service; what we do well, how we might improve, and what comments you have generally about our service. This year we’ve also asked questions about your experiences, generally, of life with an implant.…

Temporaray Service Outage – Lower Hutt Clinic

This is a message for our Lower Hutt (Queens Drive) patients. In the very early hours of Thursday 23 June there was a fire outside the building that houses our Lower Hutt clinic. While there has not been any physical damage to our clinic space, nor significant damage to the building itself, there is some…

Celebrating International Cochlear Implant Day today

As more and more people receive a life-changing cochlear implant and hear again, International Cochlear Implant Day today 25 February is truly something to celebrate in Aotearoa in 2022. In last year’s Budget the Government allocated an extra $28 million over four years for adult cochlear implants. The Southern Cochlear Implant Programme (SCIP) has performed…