We are excited to be recruiting a B3 Support Worker (Cancer & Palliative Care) 22.5 hours a week with a supportive team of SLT, Dietitian, OT & PT. Helping patients meet therapy goals and maintain quality of life. Contact us if questions! wwl.nhs.uk/opportunities#…

A great #OT post to really support patients with complex symptoms meet their rehab goals and engage in meaningful daily activities WWL NHS Careers at WWL

Our job ad is open until Sunday. Perfect for commuting from Manchester, Liverpool or Preston #SLT2B #Mysltday

B8a ENT Clinical Lead #SLT post. Last chance to apply! #slpeeps #headandneckcancer

Do your diet, fluid and strategy recommendations make sense with your #VFS analysis? Great clinical applications of DIGEST Liverpool Head & Neck Centre with Kate Hutcheson #slpeeps

Use of DIGEST for personalised care Liverpool Head & Neck Centre. Kate Hutcheson with the reminder that not all aspiration is the same. Tailoring SLT intervention based on grade. Research to be published showing expectations of oral intake at each grade.

Want to read along with our #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas? The advent calendar you didn’t know you wanted. First up, one for if you’ve ever thought, now I wonder if that would look different on…*alternative instrumental swallow exam*?

Behind door 2️⃣! Useful paper to support #personalisedcare discussions for patients who are eating and drink with acknowledged risks of aspiration #slpeeps #dysphagia #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas

Day 3! Motivating evidence for using #EMST to rehab some oropharyngeal dysphagias. But putting this into practice requires review of funding pathways - are local SLT teams absorbing the costs? #EMST150 #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas

Day 4! Found this really useful for considering protocols, balancing radiation exposure with enough trials for diagnostic accuracy, we’re looking for a pattern to the dysphagia.

5️⃣ looking at a swallow screen today, research that identifies what is within normal limits is vital

1️⃣2️⃣ Role of speech and language therapy in managing dysphagia and dysphonia in lung cancer (Childs & Archer, 2019) #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas #mySLTday

To protocol or not to protocol? The #VFS question! ✅reduces clinical variation ✅better study comparison✅validity ⛔️can feel un-patient centred ⛔️ feeling of screening unnecessarily ⛔️ differing protocols for MBSImp & DIGEST so locally adapted. We’re looking at ours ⬇️ 👀

⁉️⚠️ Advice needed⁉️⚠️ our provider for electrodes for surface electromyography (sEMG) is no longer supplying them. Where are #slpeeps buying their electrodes from now? #dysphagia RCSLT 💙

A Biozoon UK pint at the Rovers! Nice one #corinationstreet highlighting an option available for those with #dysphagia that can’t swallow. My patient (who’s trialled Biozoon) saw it - visibility can be great for acceptance and integration.

8️⃣ today we’re reading ‘Predictive Value of the New Zealand Secretion Scale (NZSS) for Pneumonia’ (Miles et al, 2017) #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas

On day 1️⃣5️⃣ of our #evidencebasedcountdowntoChristmas we’re sharing this great resource. The Aphasia Research Library . First saw this on Bluesky and found their account here. Helping make research accessible which should help embed research in practise. #aphasia #slpeeps

This systematic review of #dysphagia interventions for people with #dementia raises more questions than answers but highlights the need for further research - links to other articles in our series on informed consent and involving people with impaired capacity in research.

We’ve turned our Quality Board #RedForResearch WWL NHS . For #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay on 20th May to #RedForResearchDay2025 on 20th June 🧐how can staff engage in research? 🤔how can patients get involved? 🤓what does the research say? #evidencebased #research

Looking forward to this!