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Reflux – diagnostic tools and special considerations in singers

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Depending on your point of view, laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is either ubiquitous or is over-diagnosed. Are singers more prone to LPR? What are the best tests? Mark Watson and Jane Shaw tell us more. Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR: the backflow of...

The Surgical Skills Centre in BACO 2018: pride of place

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - General
Simulation in medical training is gaining prominence with every passing year, and BACO will have a large space showcasing this area. We hear from the organisers. In recognition of the developing importance of simulation in surgical training, BACO 2018 has...

OBITUARY: Dr David Pothier

1 September 2018
David Pothier passed away on July 27, 2018 in the early hours of the morning following a struggle with recurrent brain cancer. His passing extinguished a brilliant light, the likes of which few of us will witness in our lifetime....

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

Cocaine-induced ENT pseudo-GPA (CIEpGPA): an underdiagnosed entity

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Cocaine-induced ENT pseudo-GPA is increasingly seen in our ENT clinics. The authors of a new ENT UK guideline offer a concise overview for day-to-day recognition and management. Use of cocaine has steadily increased in Europe since 2010 and now represents...

Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....

Fibre-delivered transoral laser surgery – description of a novel technique

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Head & Neck
Transoral flexible laser surgery refers to the use of a fibre-delivered laser for laryngeal procedures via direct laryngoscopy. We hear of a novel innovation. The continuous development of instruments to perform endoscopic procedures for treatment of laryngotracheal pathology – among...

Dispelling myths about audiologic counselling: part one

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
In the first of a two-part series, 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 psychological and emotional states,...

Covid-19 A message from Gareth Smith

27 March 2020 |
Whilst our ENT colleagues have scrambled to the coronavirus ‘call to arms’ and taken the ultimate risk, for many audiologists and audiology services the threat of this global virus presents some different challenges. Whilst social isolation is a scary thought...

Tribute to Mr Amged El-Hawrani

31 March 2020
We were deeply saddened to learn of the death of NHS ENT Specialist, Mr Amged El-Hawrani, this week. Mr El-Hawrani, an ENT Consultant at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, passed away in Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on Saturday...

AOT ENT Education - A new initiative

14 July 2020
AOT is to curate a national and free resource of consultant delivered teaching. So far we have edited, time-stamped (to save scrolling) and mapped to curriculum over 50 videos from national ENT education schemes from around the country, totalling...

Congratulations on being elected BRS President

11 August 2020
Mr Raj Bhalla has been elected next President of the British Rhinological Society following a recent vote by the membership. He works as a Consultant Rhinologist at both Manchester Royal Infirmary and Salford Royal Hospital. He will take up...