Question: Is it now a general rule that ear syringing is no longer available on the NHS, or is this just my local health authority’s way of ‘spreading the load’? Instructed to go private, I’ve been ...

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IN RESPONSE to SJ Howat on June 29, I too had exactly the same response from my doctor (my appointment with him took a week), who said there was an eight-week waiting list to have my ears syringed – ...