See below: we’re recruiting someone to join our thriving research active team! Teaching focus phonetics-PhD qualified in SLT/P and/or in phonetics/linguistics. Please share with interested colleagues and/or dm me if interested :-)
On #IWD2026 remember: nursing is still a female-dominated profession shaped by stigma & gendered assumptions.
When nursing is framed as “caring” rather than skilled clinical practice, it becomes easier to justify lower pay.
Look at the pay and tell me we’ve really moved on.
The story of the Paper Boat. A British Geriatric Society blog from 2018. Let me know if you’d like the full text & I’ll send it to you.
The story of the Paper Boat was a blog I wrote back in 2018 for @gerisoc.bsky.social.
It was an analogy that I found useful to explain to patients and families how difficult it can be to predict the future accurately.
Now as I and my friends get older, I find myself sharing it once again.
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Quote from Steve Jamieson, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, about the UK Government's Health and Growth Accelerators announcement in February 2026: "We welcome the UK Government’s £25m investment in Health and Growth Accelerators to better link health and work support. If the NHS is to be accountable for employment outcomes, we must involve the right professionals. Speech and language therapists play a vital role in supporting people with communication, cognitive, and voice needs to stay in and return to work. Enabling support from and access to speech and language therapists to advise on workplace support is critical to ensuring people get tailored, expert support to meet their communication needs. Good work and good communication go hand in hand.”
📢 'Good work and good communication go hand in hand.'
🚨 The RCSLT responds to the Govt's Health and Growth Accelerators announcement.
🗣️ It is essential that people with communication, cognitive, and voice needs can access speech and language therapy so they can stay in and return to work.
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.
How does he sleep at night?
City St George's are looking for paediatric SLTs to take part in 3 student research projects with ethical approval. Further details below in comments - please do consider taking part and/or sharing with others
This #OpenAccess article provides readers with a first-person account of the physical, emotional, and social burdens caused by iatrogenic dysphagia resulting from oncological treatment.
https://on.asha.org/4tSGFD3 #bskySPEECHIES
This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl.
If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🫵🏻🫵🏽🫵🏿 Do you have a spare 5 minutes?
📧 Then please use this e-action to invite your MP to an event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia in March being hosted by the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social.
😊 Thank you!
BLOG What does dementia rehabilitation mean to a speech and language therapist’? ‘it means ‘supporting people to engage within meaningful interactions & communicate thoughts & needs using verbal & non-verbal communication’ letstalkaboutdementia.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/w...
A RCSLT graphic reading 'Primary Progressive Aphasia parliamentary event Wednesday, 11 March 2026'.
📢 People with Primary Progressive Aphasia need your help!
📧 Please email your MP inviting them to an event at Parliament on 11 March on how speech and language therapy supports people with PPA.
🔗All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes:
www.rcslt.org/news/invite-...
The next UK Acute Care at Home/Frailty RCSLT CEN takes place on 31/3/26 1.30-3.30. Speakers confirmed:Denise Hilton and Ros Fraser. Topic- SLT role and key competencies for working in Frailty.
Register for MS Teams invite at: sltacah@outlook.com
Graphic shows a group of people round a table and the words Scottish Approach to Change Learning Community
We recently launched our Scottish Approach to Change Learning Community. Our community aims to support change across health and social care in Scotland. We plan to help members build knowledge, understanding, and confidence when delivering change.
Link is in the comments.
And who could blame him with such a beautiful smile? 💕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Happy to share this as a good start to a new year @lypftresearch.bsky.social @peterdjust.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @hazelroddam.bsky.social @markjayes.bsky.social @arc-yharc.bsky.social @drjohnabaker.bsky.social
@janeeball.bsky.social
🚨Eating & drinking in last days of life
An emotive subject, important to explore & the focus of latest episode.
🎧https://speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episode-151
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#OrdinaryDying
#AdvanceCarePlanning
#PEoLC
#EoLC
Another successful weekend on-call, de-spouting the Emergency Department one horrifying beaker lid at a time.
I do this too 🤣🤣
Thought provoking session from our experts in palliative care. Speech therapists have the skill set to support patients at the end of life but we often find ourselves stuck in a rehab model. But what happens when people aren’t getting better?
Celebrating World Cancer Day and counting my many blessings.
I am fortunate to live in a part of the world where we have excellent healthcare and I am supported by a collection of absolutely fabulous family, friends and colleagues!
Many others are not so fortunate.
#WorldCancerDay
#Scotland
Cartoon orange character encouraging patients to ask about treatment risks with the phrase 'It's OK to Ask'.
To help you get what you want out of your next appointment in NHS Lothian, it's worth remembering to ask questions.
Healthcare staff across NHS Lothian are more than happy to answer the questions you may have. https://www.nhsinform.scot/campaigns/its-ok-to-ask #oktoask
Lighting this week’s #candleforcare at the start of #NationalStorytellingWeek. Let us all work harder at listening to and hearing the stories that bind our community, not least the stories of #olderage. #NSW26 #careaboutcare
Prompt screening, assessment, & interdisciplinary management of mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia can help delay progression into severe impairment. Graduate students learned to integrate cognitive screening into their practices https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00127
