RCSLT News April 2023: Welcome new CEO Steve Jamieson; vacancies; news from Scotland & Wales; & more

In April's RCSLT News podcast:

• New RCSLT CEO, Steve Jamieson, shares his mission for RCSLT and messages for speech and language therapists and the people they support. (More about Steve here: www.rcslt.org/news/royal-college…w-chief-executive/)
  
  
• We look at the results of the recent survey into vacancies in SLT services and some of the media coverage this has generated: www.rcslt.org/news/vacancy-rates…-language-therapy/
  
  
• Senedd report highlights over-representation of young people with communication needs within criminal justice system: www.rcslt.org/news/senedd-report…al-justice-system/
  
  
• New Scottish health secretarry, Michael Matheson
  
  
• HEE merger with NHS England: www.hee.nhs.uk/hee-merges-with-nhs-england
  
  
•  HCPC consultation on the proposed changes to the Standards of conduct, performance and ethics: www.hcpc-uk.org/news-and-events/n…mance-and-ethics/
  
  
• Anti-racism in AHP education report from the Council of Deans of Health: www.rcslt.org/news/anti-racism-in-ahp-education/
  
  
• It's the first #GreenerAHP week www.rcslt.org/news/sustainabilit…-language-therapy/
  
  
• New Professional Development Framework for SLTs: www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-profess…d-to-support-slts/
  
  
• Statement on thickened fluids: www.rcslt.org/news/our-statement…-thickened-fluids/

This interview was conducted by Victoria Harris, Head of Learning at The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and features Derek Munn, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the RCSLT and Steve Jamieson, RCSLT CEO.