Senior paediatrician will lead review of “unacceptable” hearing test failures
The UK government has launched an independent review to examine how hundreds of children in England were given a misdiagnosis by NHS hearing services.1 Camilla Kingdon, a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, will lead the review of how service failures in paediatric audiology led to many children’s hearing tests not being conducted properly or followed up effectively. So far, 107 children have been found to have been given a misdiagnosis from …
