Motion: Hear to Help’s Community-based Support

Hear to Help’s Community-based Support

Lodged by John Scott Members' Business Motion 49 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament recognises what it considers the life-changing work of Action on Hearing Loss Scotland’s Hear to Help volunteers in providing community-based support such as re-tubing, cleaning and maintaining NHS hearing aids and supply of hearing aid batteries to more than 1,200 people with hearing loss in the NHS Ayrshire and Arran area every year, including residents of 38 care homes, nursing homes and sheltered housing complexes who are housebound or have mobility difficulties; understands that the charity had a central role in the development, consultation and piloting of the Ayrshire and Arran Sensory Locality Plan to deliver the See Hear strategy in the region, and believes that this model of best practice of person-centred local partnership working between statutory and third sector agencies could enable vital charitable services to gain access to sustainable funding and be replicated across Scotland, including in the NHS Tayside, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Borders areas, where Hear to Help supports an additional 4,000 people with hearing loss.

Supporters (49)