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Our hearing assessment are very comprehensive to look at your ability to hear: different sounds, discriminate speech and how well you hear in noise, looking how well your middle ear is working.

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Rachel Knappett

Rachel Knappett, is Head of adult audiological rehabilitation at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and leads the adult and tinnitus Audiology services there. As a Specialist Audiologist, she has extensive experience with complex hearing loss, single-sided deafness and tinnitus. Further expertise includes the provision of customised hearing protection and hearing therapy. Rachel has previously undertaken charity work with the International Nepal Fellowship to Nepal to provide Audiology support on one of their ‘Ear Camps.’ She chairs the East of England professional tinnitus network and is on the Cambs Tinnitus Support Group committee. She is also active in research.

  • Qualifications

    BSc in Clinical Science

    BAAT parts 1 and 2

    BSL Level 1

    Certificate in Audiology APEL Route

    Advanced GNVQ Health and Social Care

    Masters Level Credits for Tinnitus and Hyperacusis

    Certificate in Service Development

  • Awards

    British Society of Audiology, Ruth Spencer Prize 2010/2011

    Allied Health Professionals Awards 2011 (Runner Up)

  • Professional registrations

    Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists No 4656

    Hearing aid dispenser: HAD02793

    British Tinnitus Association corporate member

  • Conference presentations

    GN Resound Conference. The management of single-sided deafness. 2017.

    Audiology Transition Service. SBK Healthcare Transition Conference, 2014.

    Moving On – taking Transition beyond the Clinic. BAA Conference, 2013.

    Transition Service. Norfolk and Norwich Symposium Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 2010

    Transition Service. BAA Regional Meeting in Cambridge, 2010

  • Publications

    Meehan S, Hough, E A, Crundwell G, Knappett R, Smith M, Baguley D M, The Impact of Single Sided Deafness upon Music Appreciation, J Am Acad Audiol 00:1-19 (2016)

    Knappett, RE. ENT and Audiology News, Vol 24, 4, September/October 2015, Audiological and Psychological Consequences of Single Sided Deafness

    Knappett, RE. BAA magazine Issue 18, Autumn 2010, Audiology and ENT: Exemplary working relations at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

    Knappett, RE. BSA News 2009 Transition Services: Putting Guidelines into Practice, NDCS Magazine

We are based at:
Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital
30 New Road
Impington
Cambridge
CB24 9EL
Appointments: 07990 072971
Spire Lea: 01223 266990
We also have clinics at:
Unit 10 Bennell Court
West Street
Comberton
Cambridge
CB23 7EN
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