RCSLT Online Outcome Tool

Publications, resources and useful links

RCSLT Conference 2023

• Sarah Lambert spoke at conference about our pilot to explore adding fields to ROOT to help services monitor inequalities. Check out the slides from the presentation (including a range of useful links) and do get in touch if you want to know more root@rcslt.org 
• Kathryn Moyse gave a 'lightning talk' as part of the programme, shining a light on how the ROOT can support the profession with delivering data-driven speech and language therapy services. Take a look at the slides for more information. 

Bulletin Publications in 2022/23

• Learn how ROOT data can be used to consider how the speech and language therapy profession has changed over the last three years, in a piece by Pam Enderby, Katie Chadd and Kathryn Moyse in the Spring 2023 edition of Bulletin (pages 48-50)
  
  
• Read Freyja Bell's reflections on developing a multi-disciplinary stroke TOMs scale  in the Winter 2022/23 edition of Bulletin

• Find out what the RCSLT’s strategic vision means for speech and language therapy research and outcomes in the Summer 2022 Bulletin.

For previous publications of Bulletin, please see the RCSLT webpage: Bulletin archive.

Using the ROOT to demonstrate impact

• High-level findings from the ROOT were presented at a masterclass, hosted by the British Aphasiology Society entitled "Improving the quality of services for people with aphasia; practical implementation of TOMs and the ROOT"
  
  
• In summer 2023, the team presented three presentations at the 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)

1. Improving the quality of service delivery using real-world data 
2. Variation in the provision of speech and language therapy to people with aphasia 
3. Equity of access for children to speech and language therapy in the UK 

• The RCSLT presented at the one-year anniversary of the AHP Research and Innovation Strategy about the ROOT as a source of real world data. Watch the presentation - The value of real-world data in research and evidence-based healthcare - on the CAHPR website. 

• Two journal articles have been published describing the development of the ROOT:
  
  
1. Moyse, K., Enderby P., Chadd, K., et al (2020) Outcome measurement in speech and language therapy: a digital journey. BMJ Health & Care Informatics 2020;27:e100085
2. Enderby, P. and K. Moyse (2018)  International classification of functioning - an approach to outcome measurement. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 3(17): 99-108. 

• Variation in the Provision and Outcomes of Speech and Language Therapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease in the UK (pdf)
  This poster presented at the Parkinson's UK Research Conference in 2020 uses ROOT data to explore the experience of people with Parkinson’s. 
  
  
• Research on the  Impact of Covid-19 on the speech and language therapy profession and their patients published in Frontiers in Neurology (2021) included use of ROOT data.  
  
  
• Importance of Routine Data Collection at Times of Disruption: Lessons from Speech and Language Therapy (pdf)
  Findings from the ROOT about the impact of COVID-19 were also shared in this poster for the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine conference 2020.

Other resources and references 

• Catch up on some of the presentations and resources from our June 2022 event Owning outcomes: outcome measurement to deliver quality services.
  
  
• Read about a collaboration with Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and STAMMA: Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of people who stammer. 

• View the presentation given by RCSLT at the 2022 ESLA Congress on ‘The value of evaluation in advancing speech and language therapy practice after the pandemic'. 

• Tune in to a RCSLT podcast, in which Vicky Styles and Catherine Hale talk about the use of the ROOT in AAC services

• RCSLT Outcome measurement pages: Including more information about the RCSLT Outcomes Programme and ROOT, and our guidance on measuring outcomes outside individualised care

• RCSLT Local Influencing Guidance: support and resources to assist with influencing local decision makers