Listening for Life Appeal
The Yorkshire Cochlear Implant centre is embarking on a project to raise £2.5million to build a new cochlear implant centre in the grounds of Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Currently the cochlear implant service is in the Infirmary, carrying out some fantastic work and transforming lives by giving the sensation of sound to hundreds of profoundly deaf babies, children and adults.
The service carries out about ten per cent of all cochlear implant operations in England, but its success means that it is bursting at the seams. Consultant Chris Raine, who founded The Ear Trust back in 1990 to support the work of the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant centre, has worked hard to raise £1million to enable plans to be developed for a new centre.
Mr Raine says: "What is needed is a purpose-built centre, housing everything under one roof, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has agreed that the centre can be build in the grounds of the Bradford Royal Infirmary."
You can read more about this story in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
