Slight Change of Focus

It has been brought to my attention by a kind friend that posts on this blog have been rather few and far between. This has been for a number of reasons, chief of which is time.

When I set out to produce this blog my intention was to make it a resource for Tinnitus patients and professionals to enable them to review the evidence base for Tinnitus treatments and decide for themselves about their efficacy. To that end each post required I perform as thorough a literature review as possible, summarise each paper and write a conclusion. I still intend to do this when I get the chance but it is just not practical to do this regularly.


Alongside my NHS work I have a private practice at www.hearingtherapy.net, an industrial hearing assessment and rehabilitation business www.sheffieldindustrialhearing.co.uk, write regularly for the BTA Quiet magazine, sit on the British Society of Audiology council and chair the professional development committee of the British Academy of Audiology. I am currently engaged in a research programme funded by DEFRA and developing the national Quality Evaluation Tool for Tinnitus and writing the Tinnitus info leaflet for Audiologists for the BTA. So, quite busy.

To this end I shall be publishing more frequently on here but with less time intensive pieces making up the majority of posts. My hope is to encourage more active discussion both in the comments and in the forum available here. I will be creating a separate page so that the evidence-based posts can be easily found.

Thanks for your interest and patience,

Tim