Home Hearing Tests in Greater London

Do you need a home hearing test in London but can’t visit a clinic? Sound Hearing offers the perfect solution. This guide explains how home hearing tests work, their benefits, and how to book one.

Key Takeaways

• Home hearing tests provide convenient access to professional hearing assessments in a comfortable environment for people with busy lifestyles and mobility-challenged individuals.
• These free hearing tests at home allow patients to receive personalised care with emotional support from family members, contributing to a relaxed and secure experience.
• Sound Hearing employs hearing care professionals who use advanced equipment to assess hearing health and accurately fit new hearing aids. Follow-up appointments are included to provide ongoing support.

Introduction to Home Hearing Tests

Sound Hearing is a small, independent audiology company that can provide hearing care in your home. Our hearing test at home service offers comfort, privacy, and flexibility, allowing you to conveniently assess your hearing on your schedule.

Our expert audiologists offer a free home service and a hearing test. We can also demonstrate the latest technology. Our pricing is transparent and competitive. We can also provide hearing care services, including ear wax removal, though this service is an additional cost.

We offer coverage in Greater London and within and around the M25. Home visit services are popular for those with health limitations or mobility issues.

Hearing tests at home are free of charge for over-18-year-olds and come with no obligation.

We offer confidential hearing tests tailored to your needs, with a friendly audiologist to guide you through the process.

Benefits of Home Visit Hearing Tests

Convenience

You don’t need to travel to a busy clinic to wait for your appointment. We come to you, saving you time and effort. Our hearing test at home service can benefit those with busy lifestyles or those who prefer the comfort and privacy of their own home.

Comfort of Familiar Surroundings

We can complete a hearing test at home in any room where you feel comfortable.

Personalised Attention

Home hearing tests allow our audiologists to focus entirely on you without the distractions of a busy clinic. We offer support and advice on hearing health, focusing on preventative care and early detection.

Ideal for Mobility Challenges

A hearing test at home is ideal for individuals with mobility issues, disabilities, or chronic health conditions. Home visits eliminate the physical strain of travelling to a clinic, making hearing care accessible.

Real-World Hearing Aid Demonstration

Once your hearing professional has tested your hearing, we can demonstrate hearing solutions in your home environment. You can try the latest hearing aid technology in real-life scenarios with your television or radio. You can also speak to friends and family and discover whether you can hear conversations clearly.

Family involvement

Loved ones can be present during the visit, providing support and helping to understand your hearing care plan, which can improve communication and outcomes.

We can assist in setting up Bluetooth and Wireless Accessories in your home.

Most hearing solutions have Bluetooth built into them. They can communicate and stream speech and music directly from your TV and phone. Our experienced audiologists are used to crawling behind TVS, finding the correct connectors, and pairing your devices.

Smartphones and tablets can also be paired with your hearing aids and used as a remote control to adjust the hearing aid sound levels and programs. Our hearing care professionals can download the correct App and pair your devices. We can show you how the apps work and ensure you can answer calls from the hearing aid. Some users prefer to have their hearing aids set to fully automatic, with no connectivity to other devices—connectivity is not a necessity.

What to Expect During Audiology Consultation Home Visit

In the initial assessment, our expert audiologists will need to ask you some questions about your hearing, general health, family medical history and where you find you do not hear as well as you used to. We will also ask if you have tinnitus and whether you have vertigo or balance issues. If you already wear hearing aids, we will ask how you have found them and check their performance.

We will perform otoscopy, which uses an otoscope to examine the ears, ear canal, and eardrum. It checks your ear health and looks for obstructions and blockages.

A full hearing test, which records your hearing loss on a graph. It includes pure tone audiometry, bone conduction, and masking. Our equipment and procedures are as advanced as those used in a clinic. We need an environment with less than 30 db of background noise to obtain accurate hearing test results. Clinics in busy shopping centres often need a hearing booth to achieve this, whereas your home will have a quiet room.

We will then show you the hearing test results and explain your hearing loss using simple, easy-to-understand language. We will relate them to the listening situations where we advised you to struggle for hearing clarity. If we identify any conditions with the middle ear causing hearing loss which require further investigation, our team can provide a referral letter for your GP.

You are then welcome to try on some hearing aids. Our audiologists carry the latest demonstration technology from leading manufacturers, including Oticon, Phonak, Widex, Signia and Starkey. We can supply any style, including small, discreet hearing aids designed and manufactured to fit your ears precisely.

Your audiologist can assist you in determining which hearing technology, models, and styles suit your listening and hearing lifestyle needs. Experience has taught us that to have a successful outcome, we need to help customers find a hearing solution that they are happy to wear that meets their listening needs and fits their budget.

What happens at a hearing aid fitting home appointment?

If you choose Sound Hearing as your hearing care provider, we will order the products from the manufacturer and book a fitting appointment.

During the home hearing aid fitting appointment, usually a week later, we will program them to match your hearing loss using your hearing test results. Using your feedback from trying them in your home, we can fine-tune them.

We will ensure the hearing aids fit securely in your ears. Using the correct size and style of hearing aid domes and receivers ensures accurate acoustics and a secure fit.

We will also show you how to insert and remove your hearing solution, maintain and clean them, change batteries (or use a charger), and replace domes and filters.

Our hearing aid dispensers will also pair your hearing aids to your phones and other accessories.

Follow-Up Care and Support

Ongoing care is essential for maximising the benefits of hearing aids and addressing any issues that users may have. People need a hearing aid follow-up appointment shortly after their fitting. This is where you can provide feedback on how you are finding the sound quality and understanding of speech. We must also ensure you manage insertion correctly and can use Bluetooth accessories. The devices record how long you have worn them, which sound environments you have experienced, and any adjustments to the hearing aids you have made. Using this data, the hearing aid dispenser can fine-tune your devices.

Sound Hearing offer a post-home visits service using an on-demand model once you have your hearing solution.

We need to see some of our customers regularly since they may struggle to maintain their devices, and others less frequently. You will need another hearing test every 18 months. If your hearing loss has changed, we can reprogram your hearing aids.

Sound Hearing has an online shop where you can order spare domes, filters, and receivers, which are then delivered to your home.

Sound Hearing offers a Service LITE option for experienced hearing aid wearers, which can save you money. More information on Service LITE can be found here.

How to Book a Home Hearing Test

To book a free hearing test at home, please call our friendly team on 0208 103 1650.

You can also complete our online home visit booking form and request your preferred date/time. We will contact you to confirm availability and let you know who the audiologist will be.

You can also contact us via email at info@soundhearing.org.

Cost and Financing

Sound Hearing does not charge for a home visit hearing test. However, we cannot provide this service to under-18-year-olds, as the NHS offers free paediatric hearing care.

Hearing aid fittings and ongoing service home visits are free with all standard prices. If you decide to buy hearing devices from us, you will need to pay. Our price list is openly published with no hidden costs, and we believe it is competitively priced. You can pay by credit card, cheque or bank transfer.

Earwax Removal Services

Sound Hearing provides earwax removal services through home visits. These services encompass an extensive examination of your ear before and after the procedure, which illuminates the severity of wax accumulation and the success of the extraction.

Home visit ear wax removal tackles a common source of hearing difficulties without the need to visit a high street clinic. This service guarantees that all aspects of your hearing health are conveniently managed in a home visit.

Confidentiality and Privacy

The home visit hearing test is conducted with the utmost respect for patient privacy. Every step of the process, from initial interaction to final results, is subject to a strict policy of complete confidentiality, ensuring that personal details are securely guarded. This allows individuals to talk candidly about their hearing challenges without any worries.

Audiologists exercise high discretion and maintain complete confidentiality during hearing tests at home. They take time to demystify the test procedure and address patients’ questions or apprehensions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are home hearing tests free?

Hearing tests at home are available at no cost and without obligation (over 18-year-olds only). All fitting and follow-up appointments are included in our standard hearing aid pricing.

How long are hearing aid warranties?

Sound Hearing purchases extended 5-year warranties from all our manufacturers.

What should I expect during a hearing test home visit?

An audiologist will examine your ear and administer a hearing test with headphones during a home hearing test, which takes around one hour. Your hearing will be assessed using the latest equipment throughout this process.

Our hearing aid dispensing service is completely confidential.

How do I book a home visit hearing test?

To book a home visit hearing test, call 0208 103 1650 for assistance. You can also request an appointment using our booking form or email us at info@soundhearing.org. Remember to notify the service if you need to cancel or reschedule. We do not offer nationwide coverage; we work in London within and around the M25.

Are the results of home hearing tests as reliable as those conducted in clinics?

When conducted by professional audiologists using appropriate equipment, home hearing tests can be as reliable as those performed in clinics.

Our specialist audiologists are all registered with the HCPC. Our appointments are completely confidential.

Is my personal information kept confidential during a home hearing test?

Your personal information is kept confidential during a home hearing test, as audiologists are trained to uphold privacy and confidentiality throughout the process.

Do you supply hidden hearing aids?

Yes, we can supply all hearing aid solutions available in the UK. New hearing aids are often smaller than previous models.

Can you adjust my existing hearing devices?

Our specialist audiologists have experience working with all leading hearing manufacturers. Fine-tuning of existing hearing aids in your own home is a service Sound Hearing provides.

Who else provides home visit hearing care services?

Hidden Hearing provides a home hearing test. It has nationwide coverage and employs over 100 hearing aid dispensers. Demant owns Hidden Hearing, which mainly offers Bernafon and Oticon.

We were unable to find transparent pricing for Hidden Hearing.

Boots Hearing Care is a joint venture between Sonova and Boots, with over 200 clinics in the UK. Boots is part of the American conglomerate Walgreens. The clinics are usually in a room inside a Boots store. Boots does not offer home hearing tests. Since it is also owned by Sonova, Boots mainly provides Phonak devices, which are part of Sonova.

Boots Hearing Care divides their pricing into categories, but does not advise which product is in each category.

Amplifon is an Italian audiology company headquartered in Italy. Hearing tests at home typically cost around £30. In the UK, Amplifon mainly provides Resound hearing aids.

We only found that Amplifon prices start from £350.

Specsavers offers home hearing tests. It is a franchise model, and the service provided will vary from location to location. Signia mainly provides Specsavers hearing aids, which have been rebranded to Specsavers and can only be adjusted by Specsavers.

Specsavers provides a complete price list; however, since they rebrand their products to Specsavers Advance, it is hard for the consumer to know what hearing aid they are receiving and to compare pricing with other suppliers.

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