We are members of the following professional associations. Please click on the links to find out more.

British Academy of Audiology British Academy of Audiology (BAA)
www.baaudiology.org


British Society of Hearing Aid AudiologistsBritish Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA)
www.bshaa.com


Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (AIHPP)
www.aihhp.org


British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA)

http://www.bhta.net/





Office of Fair Trading (OFT)

http://www.oft.gov.uk/




Health Professions Council (HPC)

http://www.hpc-uk.org/




All our dispensers place great emphasis on continual training and development, in order to retain professional status and keep abreast of the latest developments in hearing aid technology and practise.

Together with our support team, we are dedicated to providing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of hearing care.

 

 


 



Meet Vicki Skeels

 

Vicki SkeelsVicki Skeels RHAD FSHAA, managing director, began her career in Audiology in 1977 with the NHS in Colchester. She subsequently worked in hearing research at Nottingham University and as Head of Audiology at Northampton General Hospital. Vicki gained her private qualifications in 1988 and practised independently off Harley Street and for a leading manufacturer in New Zealand, before returning to Colchester and establishing The Hearing Care Centre in 1998. Vicki is a member of BAA, AIHHP and a Fellow of BSHAA. She is a Registered Hearing Aid Dispenser and has previously served as dispenser representative on The Hearing Aid Council, the regulatory body for registered hearing aid dispensers. Vicki is also a registered clinical physiologist.

Our Team, from left  to right : Nancy Usher, Richard Lusher-Seaman, Marc Morgan, Vicki Skeels (centre), Sianne Newcombe, Holly Des Bois and Valerie Holder.



Our most recent member of staff is Richard Lusher-Seaman RHAD MSHAA, who joined us in August 2011. Richard qualified as an audiologist in 1999, after a background in nursing care, and was more recently part of the management of a regional hearing aid chain. He says he is delighted to return to a smaller, more personalised practice and, with his particular passion for people and the caring side of the business, we are delighted to have him on the team. Richard is responsible for our Clacton, Lexden and Wivenhoe clinics.




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