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Dr Huw Cooper, Consultant Clinical Scientist: upcoming Chair of British Society of Audiology

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Can you start by telling me something about your own background? After my first degree in Psychology at Reading and a year doing other things, I went to Southampton to do the MSc in 1982. My first job after that...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - General
Alexander Pope said that “to err is human”, but medical errors can have serious consequences. How can better communication minimise the risk of them occurring in the first place? Allowing all members of the surgical team to feel empowered to...

The process of medical innovation

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - General
You’ve got an amazing idea for a new device. It is going to change how your speciality of surgery is practised. It will lead to better operative results and lower risks to patients – that’s amazing, can I see it?...
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Who finds it hard to swallow?

1 October 2018 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Accuracy, Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Dysphagia, Screening, Sensitivity, Stroke, Swallowing
Early identification of dysphagia in inpatients on acute stroke wards has been recommended as best practice guidelines in many countries. However, several institutions fail to use formal dysphagia screening protocols and rely on informal detection by nurses and doctors. This...
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How well do different assessments of swallowing correlate with one another?

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Swallowing (dys)function may be assessed by three key measures: 1. instrumental swallowing techniques such as the modified barium swallow (MBS) or videofluoroscopy; 2. functional measures of diet texture that patients can eat comfortably (usually rated by the clinician); and 3....

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: transmastoid obliteration

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology
Sometimes patients with dizziness turn out to have slightly more unusual causes of their problem. Thomas Milner and Georgios Kontorinis describe their technique for managing patients who have a diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence as an identified cause of their...

From clinics to campaigns: my audiological career so far

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article we hear about the Franki Oliver’s journey from clinical practice in audiology to the third sector. Hi! I’m Franki and I’m the audiology manager at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), a charity supporting people...

Tinnitus and music

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Tinnitus
Marc Fagelson discusses how not just hearing loss, but tinnitus and hyperacusis and impairments to an individual’s ability to process music can adversely affect one’s quality of life, as well as their overall interactions from a societal and personal perspective....

Voices: In conversation with Nick Coleman

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Nick Coleman is an author and journalist who has written for several national newspapers and music magazines. Following sudden unilateral deafness in 2007, he wrote The Train in the Night, which describes his experience of hearing loss, rehabilitation and what...

How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENTA - General
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...

20th National ENT Masterclass ®

23 January 2026 -24 January 2026
Asad Qayyum, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Peterborough, UK The 20th National ENT Masterclass® took place over two days at the historic Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in central London. It marked a major milestone – the 20th anniversary of this flagship training...

Specialist Otolaryngologist (sub-specialty Head & Neck) – relocate to New Zealand

24 January 2024 | Recruitment & Personnel
Applications are invited for the position of Specialist ENT Surgeon within the ENT department at Waikato Hospital.