
Laura McKinner
@lauramckinner
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working across Head & Neck Oncology, ENT and Respiratory/NIV🗣🫁🧠
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17-08-2018 10:16:31
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Patient feedback from our AHP/CNS pre treatment clinic is really powerful. Huge increase in understanding what is to come, reduction in distress scores and overwhelmingly powerful qualitative comments Speech Therapy Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Macmillan Cancer Support RCSLT 💙 Rhian Thomas


Sad to have missed the The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh functional TORs webinar and can’t now watch online. How are others “prehabbing” their TORs caseload? Any tips/tricks? Liverpool Head & Neck Centre Head & Neck CEN Head & Neck Cancer CEN (North) @OUH_HeadandNeck

So good to have our new Head of Therapies Hayley Price spend some time with us and learn about the wonderful world of Head & Neck. Looking forward to dreaming big for our patients!


Really useful paper providing evidence that DELAYED SLT intervention is associated with persistence of post extubation dysphagia and death RCSLTTracheCEN Intensive Care Society 💙 ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

NOW PUBLISHED: Head & Neck Cancer UK National Multidisciplinary Guidelines 6th Ed bit.ly/4apTSsF Includes our RCSLT 💙 endorsed speech, voice & swallow rehab section dr jo patterson* @grainnecbrady Dr Gemma Clunie @gemmaclunie.bluesky.social Dr Margaret Coffey Dr Roganie Govender MBE 🇿🇦🇬🇧 @DiSellstrom Laura-Jayne Watson

👀 New publication! 👀 Current #SLT management of post-RT #dysphagia in #hnc. Always a pleasure to work with Rhiannon Haag Gavriella Simson Dr Roganie Govender MBE 🇿🇦🇬🇧 CeriRobertson Emma Stuart. Nice to see our names in print! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A comprehensive review on low tech AAC in ICU. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10… Well done Hissah Alodan for your first PhD paper published!! A few more to go🤓 Also means 2 papers in 2 days for SLT_BartsHealth💙 🤓 Barts Health Critical Care Research Group Joe McQuillan Ian Taylor

What does current literature, SLTs & patients tell us about terminology & Ax in “laryngeal hypersensitivity related dysphagia”? Take a look at our NEW publication IJLCD 🙌🏻 swallaceobeslt Fiona Gillies SLT Upper Airway CEN Siobhan Ludlow Dr Gemma Clunie @gemmaclunie.bluesky.social NIHR ARC Greater Manchester onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…


Practical recommendations for swallowing and speaking during NIV in people with neuromuscular disorders, written together with great SLT Lee Bolton (he/him) 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🕊️ and legendary PT Michel Toussaint 🤓🤩😃 actamyologica.it/article/view/4… Hot off the press🔥

Best known as the voice of the Premier League, football commentator Martin Tyler was facing permanent damage to his voice following the discovery of a growth on his larynx. Hear how staff at @stgeorgestrust helped save his voice, getting him fit to do what he does best.

Interested in laryngeal changes seen in bulbar patients during MI:E cough assist? Check out our new article MFT NHS RCSLTTracheCEN Intensive Care Society 💙 emjreviews.com/neurology/arti…

'Talking about dying won’t make it more likely. Death rates remain a stubborn 100% despite medical advances, a rate that looks unlikely to change'. Fab piece by Kathryn Mannix on new study of (over) investigation of pts who die <6mths later #Last1000Days theguardian.com/commentisfree/…


Are you looking for your first job in Adult Acute? We have an exciting band 5 job out to advert. Soon to qualify final students are encouraged to apply! Any questions let us know . Link below 👇 IWT & PHU Recruitment Uni of Reading jobs.smartrecruiters.com/PortsmouthHosp…


New paper: Troubleshooting Above Cuff Vocalisation Thanks to Chris Bojke Heidi Siddle Emilia Michou Cathy Brennan Mark Bellamy University of Leeds @AUHE_Leeds Leeds Research & Innovation LTHT Adult Therapies CSU LTHT Adult SLT 💙 National Institute for Health and Care Research RCSLTResearch #ACV #TheACoUSTiCstudy link.springer.com/article/10.100…

WE NEED YOUR EXPERTISE: Newcastle Hospitals SLT Amy Fitzgerald is conducting a questionnaire on assessing laryngectomy patients prior to secondary TEP. If you are a H&N SLT working in the UK or Ireland, please let us know about your experiences ⬇️
