With thanks to @richardodurrant for permission to share our DMs. Worries about lack of nutrition at the end of life are very common, & should always be taken seriously. I'm talking here about dying from an illness, & how dying impacts appetite & gut function. cc APM 1/

Solidarity to all the junior doctors who made the difficult but necessary decision to strike. It comes down to this. When I qualified as a doctor, I was paid 25% more in real terms than they are today. (And I was at least 25% worse.) This isn't a pay rise, this is pay restoration

Follow the link below to sign up for our Sustainable Speech & Language Therapy - Monthly Online Networking Event with Derek Munn from the RCSLT! eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-… @Eventbrite

Ok did anyone else see a big green meteor over Hertfordshire 5 mins ago?! 🤯

This is 90-year-old David Picksley who was the oldest finisher at this year's TCS London Marathon 💥 He consistently averaged around 50 mins for his 5km splits and finished in 7:16:46 🙌 A true hero 🔥 #LondonMarathon

A shoutout to Adele Roberts who became the fastest woman in history to complete TCS London Marathon with a stoma bag, clocking 3:30:22 🙌 She started using a stoma bag in 2021 after surgery for stage two bowel cancer 🙏 Given the all-clear, she continues to raise awareness 💥

Life expectancy in the UK has fallen dramatically Excluding Covid there have been 250,000 premature deaths over the past 10yrs Govt NHS austerity is killing the UK This Govt must be held to account Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons & daughters Not just numbers

This video is absolutely excellent👇

2 SLT band 5 vacancies to work in the acute rotation at Barnet Hospital - please share and apply! beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Me on a night out

Yet again no reference to the #AHP workforce. With vacancy rates in speech & language therapy reaching 23% across the UK we urgently need a fully costed workforce plan rcslt.org/news/vacancy-r… ASLTIP @SteveJamieson12 @AHPF @AHPF

"I hope this email finds you well". How the email finds me:

Join us at 6:30pm to explore how we can supporting people who are living with #dementia & identify with the #LGBTQIA community. Open to non-physiotherapists too!!

This is the worst possible moment to double down on the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels. The climate crisis is destroying our natural world and robbing our children of their futures. We need to move faster to make fossil fuels redundant. Anything less will be a disaster for our

I so rarely get to do swallow rehab working in elderly care, so it’s been a delight this week to set up an inpatient with a rehab regime. Checked up on him to find him meticulously reading through the instructions and ticking them off when he had completed them 💙 #mySLTday

I would really love for 2024 to be the year that my children’s book, Big Bear, Little Bear and Dementia, is able to reach schools- so that we can continue to build generations of people who are understanding & supportive of #dementia 🐾 That is my goal for 2024!!

This is every speech and language therapist I’ve ever met (myself included) 🫠

Well this is very exciting news to share on a Bank Holiday Monday… Ostara is launching this September, bringing affordable physiotherapy to Care Homes via Subscription packages. Ostaraservices.com to find out more