Our 160-year history

Crunching the numbers
- Our oldest active client is 102 years old.
- We have 94 clients over the age of 90 that have had appointments this year.
- We delivered 43,501 client appointments in 2019, compared to 22,678 appointments in 2016 (nearly doubled!)
- More than 10,000 people are supported by RIDBC.
- More than 1,000 children have received support via early learning programs.
- Currently, we are seeing a total of 619 clients with a CALD background.
- Over 430 hearing implant surgeries have been performed.
- Since its inception, SCIC has helped 4917 people with hearing loss.
- More than 4,500 cochlear implant recipients have received ongoing support from our Cochlear Implant Program.
- 15 of Australia’s and the world’s top Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeons work with RIDBC as of 2020.
- 227 students have enrolled in RIDBC postgraduate courses.
- Online seminars pertaining to 60 different subjects have been streamed globally.
- 50,000 students have completed a CPE course or webinar since 1995.
- As of mid-2020, there have been 1100 postgraduate awards issued.
- There are 141 different roles at RIDBC across a total of 449 staff members.