Innovative brain surgery allowing deaf children to hear being funded throughout the NHS

PAn innovative brain surgery allowing deaf children to experience for the first time the sensation of hearing needs to be funded throughout the NHS.

Teams of specialists will provide radical surgery for children under five who are unable to use hearing aids or conventional implants because their inner ear or auditory nerve has not developed properly.

Health officials said the "life-changing" auditory brainstem implants would now be offered by specialist teams from hospitals in Manchester and London to children across the country.

The Health Secretary said he was "impressed" by the extraordinary medical advances that will allow young children to hear.

The very complex procedure involves the insertion of a device …