The reason why patients in Emergency Departments in the UK:
sit on floors,
queue for hours,
wait days in the ED before they get into a hospital bed,
and sadly die, evidenced by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine recently.

We have ultra low capacity and funding
Simple.

.RCSLTResearch RCSLTLearn North West RCSLT Hub CAHPR-Greater Manchester OfficialCAHPR ReSNetSLT Clinical Academics in SLT SLT at BCU MMU SaLT Soc Claire Mitchell The Informed SLP ESLA Europe SLPhD Network Speech Pathology Australia Hazel Roddam, FRCSLT Professor Victoria Joffe Amit Kulkarni Sarah Hayward Lorette Porter Dr Sam Burr Kim Turner #SLT #SLP

Find out the outcomes of #research that has taken place in the Trust we have a spreadsheet with links to abstracts.

Visit the ‘publications’ accordion here: leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/research/about…

Final prompt about todays @mental_elf blog 👇

On acute mental health wards, the incidence of self-harm has risen over recent years, and it is widely reported to be the most frequently occurring patient safety incident.

Today we explore new research that claims to have found an answer: nationalelfservice.net/?p=191484

Also excited to share 'An evaluation of a speech and language therapy eating, drinking and swallowing service for adults with intellectual disability'
doi.org/10.1108/TLDR-0… Huge thanks again to my wonderful co-authors Jill Titterington Michelle Tennyson BSc MPA CF RCSLT Northern Ireland

My 2020 scoping review of #AlliedHealth reports is on T&F platform and there's 50 free online copies I can share!
The Readers, the Writers and the Documents: Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology: Vol 22 , No 2 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

UPDATED LIST 📣

Find out the outcomes of #research that has taken place in the Trust we have a spreadsheet with links to abstracts.

Visit the ‘publications’ accordion here: leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/research/about…

👏 Massive shoutout to Mikey's Wish for capturing the latest palindrome on his #InvestInSLT petition.

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♀️ RCSLT 💙 had missed it so it's great to see!

✍️🏿✍️🏽✍️🏻 Please keep signing & sharing so Mikey gets 1⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ signatures.

▶️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6579…

My doctoral systematic review is finally out! We broadly reviewed papers looking at the barriers to mental health support for different racially-minoritised communities im the UK and did a synthesis of the findings. Free open access link:

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Finally submitted, huge thanks to all John Baker Jane Cahill Prof BronwynHemsley Dr Alison (Ali) Drewett and so many people who have kept me going Dr Mark Jayes Paula Leslie LYPFT R&D Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust RCSLT 💙 #SLTsinMH Hazel Roddam, FRCSLT

Thankyou for inviting me to present, good to see so many who have supported this research from first beginnings! Grateful for Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust LYPFT R&D RCSLT 💙 Hazel Roddam, FRCSLT supporting SLT research and #GivingVoice to silent populations #SLTsinMH Royal College of Psychiatrists RCN MH Forum

Word of the Day is ‘limbeck’ (16th century): to fatigue the brain with attempts to extract something useful from it.

#SLTsinMH Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust LYPFT R&D Prof BronwynHemsley John Baker Carl Thompson @sltleeds

Looking forward to sharing PhD study findings and reflections on mealtime difficulties #SLTsinMH

Talking therapies require sophisticated language skills that many young people may not have mastered. #LanguageForBehaviourAndEmotions targets those skills in a structured and practical way. routledge.com/Language-for-B…

Out celebrating tonight, after a few years of silence, received a royalty check from our book, worth a whole £13.48, a few of these rare 2009 1st editions still available…

Mealtime management for people with swallowing disability: Evidence to practice - I am giving a Free Webinar 28 March 2pm AEDT #Dysphagia #NDIS ⁦NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission⁩ with input from industry - how will services actually meet standards of safety in #Dysphagia ? nds.org.au/events-and-tra…

Some people might be asking, Why is #speechtherapy so important? When you next open your mouth to speak, use your hands to gesture, text/tweet, remember that so many people cannot. Access to SLT is their lifeline. We need the government to #InvestInSLT petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6579…

That's really kind. I always learn so much from MDT colleagues. Looking forward to bringing findings into practice with our qual improvement project about to launch #MeAtMealtimes #SLTsinMH Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust LYPFT R&D