Southern Hearing Charitable Trust – Notice of 2019 AGM
The Southern Hearing Charitable Trust is holding its AGM on Wednesday 23 October 2019 at its Milford Chambers rooms in Christchurch. Details can be found here.
September 2019 Newsletter
The Spring (September 2019) Newsletter is available now for download. The Newsletter will be emailed to those people we hold details for. Anyone we don’t hold an email address for will receive a hard copy by post. We’ll also have a link on our Facebook page. Enjoy the read!
Register now for the Pindrop Foundation Adult CI Forum 2019
Registrations are now open for the Pindrop Foundation’s adult cochlear implant forum on Saturday 2nd November 2019 at the University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus, Morrins Rd, St Johns. Bringing together clients, surgeons, audiologists, researchers, funders and associated health professionals from the cochlear implant community here in New Zealand and overseas, it promises to be a…
Wellbeing budget delivers only heartbreak for Cochlear Implant patients
Today’s first “Wellbeing” budget has been hugely disappointing and a let-down for staff, patients, and Board alike. We are funded from Disability Support Services (DSS) which is a part of Vote Health. This year DSS was allocated an extra $484 million over 4 years but there does not appear to be anything set aside for…
May 2019 Newsletter
The Autumn (May 2019) Newsletter is available now for download. This Newsletter sees a change in format from those of recent years. The new format, we hope, will be shorter and easier to digest. The expectation is that this new format will have broader appeal than our patients and stakeholders alone (who remain our most…
Rehabilitationist – Queens Drive
Rehabilitationist – Queens Drive We are looking for a Rehabilitationist! We’re ideally seeking someone with a qualification in speech or hearing therapy. A person with teaching, mentoring, or other education qualification and experience may be considered. For applicants who may have hearing loss, particularly those using a cochlear implant, and who lack the requisite academic…
Hundreds unnecessarily stuck in silent world – Urgent call for increased cochlear implant funding
Press Release Budget 2019 is now days away. We’re calling on the Minister of Health to urgently fund an additional 80 cochlear implants for adults each year, for the most urgent patients, and to clear the current waiting list of nearly 200 people. For our patients a cochlear implant is the only treatment that will…
Rehabilitation Manual – Update to v 1.7
The adult Rehabilitation team have recently updated our adult Rehabilitation Manual. The new manual is version 1.7. The manual can be downloaded as a patient resource by following this link; Rehabilitation Manual v 1.7 If you have any questions about these changes please contact one of our Rehabilitation team; Nikki Cleine (nikki.cleine@scip.co.nz) Penny Monteath (penny.monteath@scip.co.nz)…
Staff Update – April 2019
Farewell to Audiologist – Hatten Howard We say farewell to Hatten Howard in our Queens Drive clinic who leaves us on 18 April. Hatten has been with us for 3 years, and joined us from the US. We wish him well in his future endeavours. Welcome to Audiologist – Aretha Mulder Aretha is a NZ…
December 2018 Newsletter – Holiday Hours
The Summer (December 2018) Newsletter is available now for download. To open a copy Click Here This edition has details of our Christmas and New Year hours. If you are a patient, both clinics will be closed on certain days. Details about how you can still get support if you have trouble with your cochlear…