Fri 8th & Sat 9th October 2010

Incorporating:

4th AIHHP Industry Awards Gala Dinner on Friday 8th October

WIDEX UK product launch on Saturday 9th October

AIHHP are pleased to announce the Autumn Educational meeting is to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Cobham, Surrey. (See www.hilton.co.uk/cobham for more details on the hotel.)

Delegates from all sectors of the audiological community are invited to attend the main conference day on Friday 8th October.  The Saturday morning is also open to all this autumn, as Widex UK, the conference's GOLD SPONSOR, are using the conference to launch a new product. Saturday afternoon is open to AIHHP Executive and Full members only.

The finalised programme will be available shortly and the Silver & Bronze sponsors will then be announced.

You will also be able to book your place via the website very soon!

AIHHP members were again rewarded with commendations at the recent European Audiologists of the year awards. The commendation winners  were;

Will Parfitt of Broom Reid and Harris, Exeter, Devon.

Jo Rae of Hearing Healthcare Practice, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

Martyn Scott of Hearing Aid Solutions, Carmarthen, Wales.

Nick Chitty of Oxford Hearing Centre, Oxford

AIHHP member Martyn Scott of Hearing Aid Solutions is the only audiologist in the UK to  win European Audiologist of the Year successive commendations. Recommendations from a number of his patients has resulted in Hearing Aid Audiologist Martyn Scott winning an industry award for the second year   running. Mr Scott, who runs Hearing Aid Solutions in Carmarthen, was presented with a certificate of commendation at the European Audiologist of the Year Awards held at Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Top European Audiology Prize won by AIHHP Vice Chairman.

Harpenden based AIHHP Vice Chair Robert Beiny, really listens to people. In fact, his patients are so impressed with his dedication to their hearing healthcare they have helped to crown him UK and, now, European Audiologist of the Year.

The UK and European Audiologist of the Year Awards were set up by battery manufacturer, Rayovac, with hearing magazine, Audio Infos and are judged by an expert panel working from written submissions from patients. The Awards are open to private hearing healthcare practices, retail chains and public health organisations, (in the UK, the NHS), and give patients the opportunity to recognise those who go beyond the call of duty to provide outstanding service. Having been awarded the UK Audiologist of the Year accolade, Robert Beiny went forward to represent the UK in the European finals held in Nuremberg, Germany, alongside regional winners from all across Europe. And it was at the end of October at the largest hearing event in Europe, the European Union of Hearing Acousticians (EUHA), that he was crowned overall winner – Europe’s best hearing aid audiologist.

What brings Annie Lennox, Mick Jagger and Amy Winehouse under one roof? Answer, the Hear the World Ambassadors photography exhibition by leading hearing system manufacturer Phonak in cooperation with musician and photographer Bryan Adams, which is being sponsored by the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (AIHHP).

AIHHP is sponsoring the London leg of the Hear the World Ambassadors exhibition, which will be showcased at London’s Saatchi Gallery and is open free to the public from 22nd to 24th July 2009. The exhibition has previously visited New York, Berlin and Zurich.

Bryan Adams has taken a series of exclusive photographs of renowned personalities for Hear the World, a global initiative which raises awareness about the importance of hearing and the impact of hearing loss, which was launched by Phonak in 2006. As official photographer, Bryan Adams captured each of the celebrity supporters with a hand cupped behind their ear to convey conscious hearing.