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Publications, resources and useful links

A more comprehensive list of publications, presentations and resources that have referenced the ROOT is available on this webpage. 

 

ROOT to the Future: Celebrating Success, Driving Change, Inspiring Innovation

In March 2025, the RCSLT hosted an event – ROOT to the Future: Celebrating Success, Driving Change, Inspiring Innovation – to bring together RCSLT members from across the UK to share experiences and examples of best practice, and to shape the development of the ROOT. The day was also a celebration of our progress with outcome measurement as a profession, and to provide an opportunity to capture learning that could be shared with the wider membership.

The day included presentations on the following topics:

• ROOT for success: inspiring action, momentum, and buy-in - Vasiliki Saounatsou and Liz Rees shared their tips on winning hearts and minds, and sustaining high levels of engagement with the ROOT.

• Data in action: harnessing outcomes data to drive innovation and meaningful change - Cath Lowry and Anna Dukes discussed their experiences of using the data from the ROOT and their aspirations for the future.

• Looking to the future: using outcomes data to tackle health inequalities - Hannah Hare, Catherine Martin and Vicky Styles talked about introducing the collection of additional data that are supporting their services to work towards addressing health inequalities.

Check out our collection of useful links to help you follow up on learning from the day. 

New fields for exploring health inequalities

In September 2024, we released new optional fields to support services with monitoring inequality and unwarranted variation. 

• Read about the experiences of SLTs who took part in the pilot in the article published in Bulletin Autumn 2024.

• We presented an update on this project at the RCSLT Conference in 2023. Watch the presentation or check out the slides (including a range of useful links)

• Hannah Hare, an SLT at one of our pilot sites, created a poster about the project and her experiences for a local NHS event called 'Pride in Clyde'. 

 

Using the ROOT to demonstrate impact

In 2024, we have been using ROOT data to help raise awareness of different areas of speech and language therapy. We've pulled all the social media posts together in a Wakelet. We've also created a quick guide  for anyone interested in comparing their own service to the outcomes we found for developmental language disorder (DLD). 

 

Other resources and references 

• Look out for the 'Research and Outcomes Forum' in the Bulletin. For previous issues, please see the RCSLT webpage: Bulletin archive.

• 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