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Listening in noise to predict learning disability

1 January 2016 |
Noise disrupts the neural coding of consonants more than vowels. Listening in noise presents a challenge for everybody, but particularly to children whose language skills are underdeveloped. This team views background noise as a disruption to the necessary neural mechanisms...

Monitored safe medical practice: minimising patient harm will reduce medical negligence bill for the NHS

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - General
Patrick Bradley ruminates on a celebrated career in ENT head and neck surgery and suggests that increasing the possibility of positive outcomes to contemporary patient safety initiatives by the NHS must involve efforts to develop an enthusiastic contented workforce willing...

Educational audiologists: adding value, bridging gaps

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Educational audiology provides a vital link between health and education by supporting children with hearing loss in educational settings. Joy Rosenberg presents an overview of the training route available in the United Kingdom. Students in lecture. Educational audiologists greatly enhance...

Changing the face of global health: short-term surgical trips

8 October 2020 |
With the growth of global health awareness, global surgery has emerged as a key focus area. This article examines short-term surgical trips (STSTs) as one of the ways used to address some of the gaps in global surgery. It demonstrates...

Across the pond: a tale of two fellowships

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
Where in the world is Halifax? Many outside of Canada have never heard of the Maritime Canadian town of Halifax. Before leaving to start a year-long fellowship there, we both had to answer many questions from family and friends about...

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Yury Konstantinovich Yanov

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Focussing on trauma and the military, it is fitting to include this interview with ENT Professor and Russian Army General Yury Konstantinovich Yanov. Professor Gerard O’Donoghue had the honour of putting some questions to this eminent figure in Russian ENT,...

Leadership in academia

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
I went into medicine with the clichéd view of wanting to help people. I found that by doing surgery I could help a small number of people, albeit usually to a large effect. Then, I recognised that by engaging in...

Dispelling myths about audiologic counselling: part one

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
In the first of a two-part series (see Part 2 here), Drs Clark and English explore common misconceptions in audiologic counselling and highlight the power of empathy and person-centred care. As patients sit before us, they experience any number of...

Sleep apnoea in children with craniofacial syndromes

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Whilst snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea are relatively common diagnoses in paediatric ENT, children with craniofacial syndromes take the problem to the next level. Robert Nash and Michelle Wyatt describe the Great Ormond Street multidisciplinary approach to treating this complex...

SmartVS™: revolutionising audiology education with virtual simulation

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Professor Brown introduces the Smart VS™ simulation system developed during the 2020 pandemic to support students in gaining experience without direct patient interaction. Universities have been training audiologists essentially the same way for the past 40+ years. It’s time to...

The future of rhinology: What will come first, a radical change in rhinological management or the decimation of the world?

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
In this article, Simon Gane looks forward to what the future holds, on the presumption he survives. Setting aside the questions of the UK even existing, the NHS still working, or the fact we’ll be commuting to our jobs in...

Doing more with less: environmental stewardship and surgery

4 November 2026 | | ENTA - General
Surgery has a significant environmental footprint. This article outlines practical ways to cut emissions, waste and energy use while embedding sustainability into surgical culture. Europe experienced its most severe heatwave on record this summer. An omega blocking system locked unprecedented...