Navigating Telehealth for Speech and Language Therapists

Rebekah Davies is a speech and language therapist with over 14 years of clinical experience. She is the co-author of the RCSLT Telehealth Guidance, a Topol Digital Health Fellow and a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and NHS Digital Academy.

Section 1: The Remote Practitioner, Introduction: The Remotest Possibility, 1. New to Practice: The Practicalities, 2. The Transition: Becoming a Digital Practitioner, 3. Let’s get digital! Clinical training offers to support, 4. Digital Confidence: What does this mean in a clinical context?, 5. Completely Competent? Using digital frameworks to digitally enable clinical workforces, 6. A New Way of Practicing or Just Practicing a New Way?, 7. A Digital Stage!, 8. Are Digital Clinics different? What are they and how are they implemented?, 9. Virtual Voices! Sharing best practice and resources, Section 2: The Remote Rules, 10. The Big Click On: Before a Remote Consultation, 11. Virtual Virgins, 12. Testing Testing, 13. Preparing Individuals for Change, 14. Bringing Individuals on a Digital Journey, 15. Prepare to Prepare, 16. Lights, Camera, Action!, 17. To IG or not IG, that is the question!, 18. Don't be IG-norant, 19. DCB easy as 123: Clinical Safety Standards, 20. Assessing & Mitigating Risk, 21. Safeguarding and Consent: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals, 22. During a Remote Consultation: The Clinican Will See You Now!, 23. Buttons, buttons everywhere!, 24. ‘You’re On Mute’, 25. Guess Who?: Clarifying Identity, 26. I Spy with My Little Eye: Establishing and managing participants, 27. Group Therapy or Digital Party?; Establishing Group Rules, 28. When Security Gets Personal, 29. Remote Rapport: Forever more or nevermore?, 30. An Extra Pair of Hands: HCPs as Digital Partners, 31. A Tangled Web; Browsers and Windows, 32. Closing Conversations, 33. Shutdown Ending a Remote Consultation Safely, Section 3: The Remote Tools: Creating a Digital Toolkit, 34. Ease of Access - Windows & You!, 35. The Bare Accessibles?, 36. You, Me and ASD, 37. Seeking Approval, 38. Emotionally Speaking - using emoticons to enhance therapy, 39. Green Screen Dreams 40. Centre of the careverse - tailoring care plans, 41. Team of 1! -creating personalised video content to support therapy programmes, 42. Say Ahhh- getting the best intra oral images, 43. Getting attached; sharing, receiving and saving attachments safely, 44. QR-Lity – utilising QR codes in therapy and evaluation, Section 4: A Remote Possibly Future, 45. Long Term Planning: Developing speech and language therapy services, 46. Health Informatics and Beyond: SLT services and digital transformation, 47. Digital enhancements of practice; CPD, development etc…., 48. Burn baby burn; Managing screen burnout, 49. Ensuring Mental Health and Wellbeing, 50. Remotely Possible: A Vision for A Digital First Future