Kickstart your career as an SLT: free workshop for final-year students!
SBT would like to invite final-year SLT students to our free online workshop on 15 May – Your First Year as an SLT
We have updated our End of Life Care Key Messages.
Click the link to read the full article.
BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare.
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🌟Part 2 of my MRes study is live! Participants wanted! Further details below 🌟
Join us for our webinar: Connecting You to Support: Allied Health Professions. Who are they and how can they help you?" on 22nd April 2026, 3:30 -4:30pm, an interactive session to learn about the self-management resources. Follow the link to register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/325ca2...
As guest editor of an EoL & palliative care special edition of @futurehealthj.bsky.social from @rcphysicians.bsky.social, it was important to me that a patient voice was given space.
Mark has #MND (ALS).
He wrote his entire article using eye-gaze technology.
Read on ⬇️
💥 NEWS FLASH: #InvestInSLT campaign update!
🚨 RCSLT & @mikeys-wish.bsky.social are delighted to announce new supporters for the Downing Street letter.
▶️ Advisory group members Robin Hurtley and Dr @samburrslt.bsky.social
▶️ Chris Kamara, and Symbol UK
📰 More info here: rcslt.org/news/invest-...
Integrated Systems: Practical resources for age-attuned care is a collection of materials to support those keen to implement frailty and age-attuned services. Top tips, template job descriptions, video conversations, blog posts and more. buff.ly/O1M3E03
Remember: fear sits in the dark hole of 'not knowing.'
The more we understand, the less there is to fear.
To watch, type bit.ly/DyingTED into your browser.
Let me know whether it brings you any new insights.
Photograph of the first page of an article entitled Improving moth care standards in hospitals a call to action
A photograph of the cover of issue 100 of Agenda the magazine of the British Geriatrics Society
Delighted to see this call to action in the BGS magazine. As Speech and Language Therapists we assessing people's mouths every day and constantly advocate for better mouth care at home, in care and in hospital. Great to see this vital and often neglected part of health care getting more coverage
End of Life Care in Frailty - This guidance has been produced to support clinicians and others in providing high-quality care for older people living with frailty as they move towards the end of their lives. Read the full guidance here: buff.ly/8AfKHIG
Nature isn’t always accessible for patients recovering , so the RIE Speech & Language Therapy Team brought it indoors. Working with Lou, our Nature Ranger, they co‑designed nature boxes filled with real natural materials to support speech, sensory engagement & confidence.
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A huge honour being chosen from the #InvestInSLT team to knock on the door of No. 10 and hand in the coordinated @RCSLT and Mikey’s Wish Foundation letter, calling on Sir Keir Starmer to ensure the action plan for speech and language is finally published.
A graphic with the Mikey's Wish Foundation and RCSLT's logos and the wording 'Invest in SLT Campaign writes to Prime Minister'.
Six people stood outside 10 Downing Street in London. They are holding up cards reading 'Invest in SLT Campaign'.
💥BREAKING NEWS
📢 Over 50 organisations join the #InvestInSLT campaign call for the Government to publish the long-promised Speech and Language Therapy Action Plan.
📨 Check out the @mikeys-wish.bsky.social and RCSLT co-ordinated letter to Keir Starmer here:
www.rcslt.org/news/invest-...
Infographic from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
It’s Swallowing Awareness Day today. As every year I will be posting what I’m eating & reflecting on people who have difficulties eating, drinking & swallowing. #Dysphagia #SwallowAware2026
Swallow awareness day 18 March 9am-4pm East Atrium
Patients and visitors can speak to our Speech & Language Therapy and Dietetics team who are marking Swallow Awareness Day tomorrow.
They'll be providing information about swallowing difficulties and you can take part in a quiz to win prizes, try thickened drinks and different food consistencies.
Once For Scotland Dysphagia Training is a FREE interactive online training for supporting people with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties, and aligns with the RCSLT Level 2 EDS competencies. Suitable for registered and non-registered staff. #SwallowingAwarenessDay
It’s Swallow Awareness Day today
While SLPs are aware of caregiver burden and implement meaningful support strategies, few explicitly ask caregivers about specific sources of burden or follow up to evaluate management strategies. Read more in Perspectives https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00277
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-...
