A more complex test is a Hearing Screening Test conducted by phone. The British Trades Union Council offered this test (to anybody). When you call it just tells you what to do, and then starts the test. The test does not even ask you which ear! Compare the phone based simplicity with the regular hearing test conducted by appointment by expensive personnel in a soundproof booth at a medical facility.

Hearing tests are frequent in middle aged married men whose wives find that they are less responsive to their comments than previously. It's often more a fault of kindness and attention than hearing!

The results of a hearing test can be presented in several ways. Simply say 'Your hearing is normal!' (or reduced) and hang up. This is appropriate for a simple Trades Union offering. Or the results may be stored and presented as an audiogram to a web page. This offers a possibility of payment, and monitoring the declining power of the patient's hearing over the years.

Payment and social organization.

The test may be offered to individuals interested in self monitoring. Maybe the test itself should be free, and the audoigram (if wanted) is $5.00 through PayPal. The Hospital may reccomend patients to the telephone hearing test service and the doctors could see the web pages easily. There is a simple annual charge for offering access to the hospital. Or, yet again, the government Health Services could pay to provide free access to all within its boundaries; the expectation here would be that this will reduce the overall cost of hearing tests.