News

Welcome to our news section where we bring you industry updates and insights from our worlds of optics and audiology. Stay informed with reports on our latest sector and CPD events, updates on recent Specsavers campaigns, and the growing activity around our Access to Care agenda.

News

Stay informed with reports on our latest sector and CPD events, updates on recent Specsavers campaigns, and the growing activity around our Access to Care agenda.

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Community audiology’s transformative role in hearing

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
26 June 2024
Specsavers is urging the sector to work together to support and extend existing NHS capacity to tackle this and other pressing issues.
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26 June 2024
Group of adults cutting ribbon to new Specsavers practice.

Specsavers opens 1000th practice

GENERAL NEWS
8 May 2024
Specsavers co-founder Dame Mary Perkins has helped opened its 1000th UK and Irish practice – 40 years after opening the doors to the first Specsavers practice.
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8 May 2024
Patient having a conversation with a Optometrist in a clinical room.

MP meets ear and eye care experts supporting community

GENERAL NEWS
30 April 2024
CENTRAL Devon MP Mel Stride visits Specsavers to see how expert local opticians and audiologists are making a difference to patients, the community and the NHS.
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30 April 2024
Ruth Avierinos holding a basket of teddy bears wearing hearing aids.

Audiologist donates teddy bears with hearing aids

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
1 April 2024
Havant audiologist donated teddy bears with their own hearing aids to children at the Queen Alexandra Hospital during Easter.  
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1 April 2024
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Specsavers announces £700,000 investment in its people

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
22 March 2024
Specsavers has underlined its commitment to colleague and clinical development by announcing a £700,000 investment in training for its audiology colleagues.
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22 March 2024
Clinician completing assessment of patients ear.

Calls for a community audiology service to ease NHS pressure

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
9 February 2024
Audiologists in Glasgow have joined calls for an NHS community hearing service, which could help relieve the pressures currently facing health boards in Scotland.
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9 February 2024
Specsavers team standing alongside host Natasha Asghar MS held an event in the Senedd, ‘Let Wales Be Heard’.

Calls for policy change to address hearing crisis in Wales

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
7 February 2024
Specsavers is calling on the Welsh Government to improve access to community audiology services for everyone in Wales.
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7 February 2024
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