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THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS October 2019 | www.rcslt.org Interview with RCSLT president Nick Hewer ¬ 75 years of speech and language therapy ¬ Living with a stammer: Q&A Stammering awareness: using text messaging to improve outcomes for children who stammer 1 RCSLT Impact Report 2014-2015 September 2015 | www.rcslt.org 01_Cover_Bulletin October 2019_Bulletin 1 17/09/2019 12:17 BUL.10.19.002.indd 2 12/09/2019 11:15 Contents ISSUE 809 4 Letters 33 11 5 News 11 Opinion by Alison Oppetit and Louise Stevens 12 Gemma Croasdell on a text messaging service to improve outcomes for children who stammer 16 Interview with Nick Hewer 18 Stammering awareness: Q&A with Paul O’Meara 20 Jois Stansfi eld on the RCSLT’s 75th Anniversary 24 Research and Development Forum 25 In the Journals 27 Clinical Excellence Networks 28 Your speech and language therapy job adverts 24 20 33 My working life: Jo Darters 18 CONTACTS ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH AND President: Nick Hewer EDITORIAL PUBLISHING DIRECTOR LANGUAGE THERAPISTS Honorary vice president: John Bercow Editor: Victoria Briggs Joanna Marsh 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX Chair: Dr Della Money Publications offi cer: Amelia Dale PRODUCTION Tel: 020 7378 1200 Deputy chair: Mary Heritage Contributing editors: Amit Kulkarni, Aysha Miah-Edwards Email: [email protected] Honorary treasurer: Richard Fass Katie Chadd PRINTING Website: www.rcslt.org Buxton Press ISSN: 1466-173X Professional director: Kamini Gadhok MBE Content assistant: Siobhan Lewis Art editor: Yvey Bailey DISCLAIMER ©2019 Bulletin is the monthly magazine of the Royal College of Speech and Language ADVERTISING Therapists. 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EDITORIAL Retirement Past and future network ne of the realities of working on a magazine is that As a retired member of RCSLT who the content for each issue needs to be decided two to has continued membership, I was Othree months ahead of when Bulletin drops through encouraged to read an excellent letter members’ doors. So, while it might be October by the time this from Barbara Hull (July’s Bulletin) issue lands with you, on the Bulletin desk it’s already 2020. regarding the changes to services. If you haven’t heard the big news yet about next year then I was reminded of my early days of we hope this issue leaves you in no doubt about how important practice working for an education 2020 is to us: in January, the RCSLT turns 75 and we want your authority in clinics and schools, but help to make our anniversary year a special one. not having contact with professional To get you in the anniversary mood, Jois Stansfi eld—who’s colleagues in hospitals. conducting an oral history of the speech and language therapy I do agree with Barbara’s comments profession—writes in this issue on the development of the following the 1974 regulations. RCSLT, from it when it was fi rst established in 1945. To help By 1982 I was privileged to build a united service following the trace the roots of the profession, Jois is on the look-out for demise of ‘Area SALTS’. Th e benefi ts of working as one team across speech and language therapy memorabilia. If you’re the kind of all specialisms were crucial for both staff and patients. person who has old copies of Speech, the forerunner of Bulletin, In the same issue of Bulletin, I also read the fi ne My Working Life squirrelled away somewhere (like we do—see photo on p22) article by Dylis Skinner, as encouraged by the late, very special then be sure to get in touch with Jois to help her in piecing Jill Stuffi ns. Th ank you Dylis! together the profession’s backstory. Finally, I am disappointed that so many SLTs cease to continue Turning from the RCSLT’s past to its present. On p16, we their membership after retirement. Here in Wessex we have a catch up with the organisation’s president, Nick Hewer, who’s valuable retirement network, founded nationally by Joyce Cook been in post for just six months. Nick shared with us how much more than 20 years ago. We still meet twice a year in diff erent he’s looking forward to being part of our anniversary year, locations in the region. All are welcome. which includes working alongside members to raise the profi le Beryl Kellow, Hungerford of the profession. Over the coming months, be sure to let us know what anniversary celebrations you've got planned. Online dysphagia training Victoria Briggs Do any other SLTs working with dysphagia currently run online editor dysphagia awareness training packages for nursing staff and AHPs? [email protected] I would be very grateful to hear from SLTs who do, including how @rcslt_bulletin they went about designing an online training package and whether it has been successful in keeping staff up-to-date with basic dysphagia awareness. If you are happy to share your training ideas, Your RCSLT please email: [email protected] FRANCES CORBETT Ellie Weeks, specialist SLT I joined the RCSLT enquiries service this summer. As an Social cognition toolkit enquiries coordinator, I am At Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, we've been the main point of contact for developing a toolkit of resources for social cognition therapy queries from RCSLT members following brain injury. Is anyone else developing this area of their and the general public, as well as for the coordination of a practice? What therapies are working for you? Would you be number of RCSLT networks interested in trialling a prototype of the toolkit prior to publication? and projects, including our We're interested in hearing from therapists in a range of settings Clinical Excellence Networks including neurorehabilitation, autism and mental health. (CENs), clinical advisers and If you'd like to join the conversation, email me at: leadership mentors. With [email protected] a background in working with charities on a variety of Katie Fahy, SLT information technology change projects, I am excited to also be involved in supporting RCSLT members through the organisation’s digital transformation process. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if there’s anything I FOLLOW THE RCSLT ON AND can help you with. Frances Corbett, RCSLT enquiries coordinator VISIT: WWW.RCSLT.ORG AND FOLLOW THE LINKS 4 Bulletin October 2019 | www.rcslt.org 04_Editors Lette_Bulletin October 2019_Bulletin 4 17/09/2019 12:18 QUICK LOOK DATES » 16;10 19;10 24;10 RCSLT minor grants International United News deadline DLD day Nations day NHS invests in chief AHPs NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) have recently published the guide Investing in chief allied health professionals: a guide for trust boards and clinicians, which they say they hope will encourage discussions on allied health professional (AHP) leadership among SLTs. Th e guide was developed to provide an evidence-based approach to reviewing and improving AHP leadership in trusts. It contains questions for trusts to consider about the potential benefi ts and common barriers to developing AHP leadership, and key insights as to how those organisations are benefi ting from dedicated chief AHP leadership. It shares the fi ndings from a project commissioned to gain insights from executives who had a chief AHP within their trust, particularly focusing on the drivers, impacts and challenges of implementing “Organisations are benefi ting from the roles. dedicated chief AHP leadership” “Overwhelmingly, trust executives told us that once a chief AHP role was in place, the eff ect on value and contribution of the workforce was immediate,” says Stuart Palma, head of allied health professions read the guide and consider the questions ringfenced to a particular profession, (professional leadership) at NHSE and NHSI. it proposes." prohibiting potential leadership Th is is also an area that RCSLT CEO Kamini development for you and your colleagues? Gadhok sees as a priority within the Prompts If so, use the document to make the case to profession. "As a representative of the Allied Stuart says he hopes that the guide will rethink why these historical practices are Health Professions Federation (AHPF), I have prompt SLTs to consider several such still in place. attended meetings with ministers to raise questions, including the following: ■ Contact your executive board member, concerns about the inequity of access to ■ Who is your chief AHP? Do you have one? responsible for AHPs, to discuss the senior leadership roles for AHPs within NHS Do you feel heard/represented/visible at document and make them aware of the organisations," she says. "It has board level? If not, use the document to key recommendations (most often this taken time to make the case, start the conversation within the speech will be the director of nursing).