At the beginning of the year, I'm reflecting on "busyness". It's an affliction for many of us. Being busy means we don't have time for things that really matter to us or we miss important opportunities. Some organisations view busyness as a marker of leadership success. Busyness may also meet our psychological need for validation, self-worth, avoiding emotions &/or staying in control. We can make 2025 the year when, individually & collectively, we are less "busy": medtrics.org/why-do-we-alway…. By Dalia Oufi. Graphic by @lianafinck via @AdamMGrant.

Fantastic to see CMCA's initiative to improve training and education for cancer care professionals win a HSJ Award. Congrats to @JohnGale1983 and his team for Workforce Initiative of the Year with the Supportive and Assistive Programme. See: cmcanceralliance.nhs.uk/news… @NHSCandM

We’ve only gone and done it! Not one but TWO awards from the @RCSLT awards. So much hard work has gone into creation of the education programme and the project as a whole. A huge thank you to all the individuals and stakeholders who have helped us to get us where we are ⭐️🥇🏆

So I've just discovered that @OfficialCAHPR keeps a directory of AHP profs. Only 8 SLT profs are listed- Google can't give me definitive list, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot more than that. Good news is you can fill in a form to be added.

Tomorrow!!! Still time to register below! 🥳

Looking forward to this session! Check out our website for more information svsassociates.co.uk

Some of the team have been lucky enough to attend the H&N Lymphoedema days hosted by @drjompatterson. Lots of learning and things to think about for our team. There are some amazing things going on around the world to help patients with lymphoedema who desperately need it!

Great poster on head and neck lymphoedema #MASCC Delphi showing large variation in assessment techniques and management

Substantial dataset reporting on the prevalence of dysphagia as a late effect in HNC, enabling predictive modelling. V impressive #MASCC ⁦@DiSellstrom⁩

Thanks so much for inviting me @DaveBettsQPM and all! Such a great group of people!

Busy day in the HANIT SLT team today - hosting and leading the C&M regional SLT and DT H&N forum with a focus on service developments. Great enthusiasm and shared learning! 👍😊

Making change happen across a system of different organisations & groups is different to managing change within a single organisation. @CollaborateCIC is a great source for approaches to system change. They use the term "system activist" rather than "system leader", as mobilising for change in a system doesn't always need formal power. They say that becoming a system activist requires a fundamental change in the way we think & feel about our work & our own role in it. They suggest seven shifts that system activists make: 1) From Organisations to Outcomes: They know that collaboration beyond the boundaries of their role/organisation is needed to improve outcomes. 2) From Management to Mobilisation: They recognise that they can't rely only on the formal authority of their role & need to build informal authority to influence & generate action by others. 3) From Me to We: They know that their perspective on the challenge & its possible solutions, is partial & limited. 4) From Expert to Explorer: They navigate through uncertainty & adopt a learning approach, guiding others through that. 5) From Delivery to Co-creation: They recognise that disagreement is inevitable & have the ability to harness it productively; they distribute power & put people with lived experience at the heart of decision-making. 6) From Expectations to Agency: They recognise that the patterns, rules & behaviours that have sustained the systems’ old ways of functioning may also need to change. 7) From Head to Heart: System activists recognise that they are a part of the system they are trying to change & they need to change as much as everyone else. collaboratecic.com/insights-…. Via @annarandle

Presenting impact of joint peer review with a specialist radiologist in head and neck cancer radiotherapy planning @BAHNOOfficial #BAHNO2024 @CCCNHS @livHeadandNeck

#FEES Very useful, thank you Prof Dziewas for making this available to the FEES clinical community. @_SVS_Associates linkedin.com/posts/prof-rain…

Tune in to hear about the PATHOS study with Prof Jones and study participants @BBCNWT at 6.30

Please note! We have a new Twitter account. This account will soon be closed. Please follow @slthanit for all updates and news about the SLT Head and Neck cancer services across Liverpool, Cheshire and Merseyside.

@LivHandNSLT @nottshncs @AbbieKerr16 @NewcastleENTSLT @mmcoffeystamp @tsewharas76 Hope you can share with teams? 🙏

Tickets are now available for LHNC Webinar Series - Research Education Development Lectures 2023 - Professor Andrew Schache at Online, Online on Tue 5 Dec 2023 at 7:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now! ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…

Such a privilege! Liverpool H&N SLTs presenting with patient partners and other MDT colleagues at the @CCCNHS cancer care conference 🙌@livHeadandNeck @KateGreaves4 @LivUni @CMCaAlliance @macmillancancer @LizBishopCCC @TerryMJones4 @drjompatterson

Hanging out with the #Clatterbridge team this evening, who were nominated for the excellence in quality improvement and innovation award 🤩 So grateful to be part of this amazing gang of SLTs across oncology and surgery ♥️ @LivHandNSLT #CCCExcellence23 #TeamCCC23 🥳