title: All placements great and small: an analysis of clinical placement offers made by SLT services.
abstract: This paper will present the results of a survey of clinical placement offers for one academic year in one particular region. The data presented confirm that there are issues of shortfall and inconsistency across speech and language therapy (SLT) service providers within this region. This information has been analysed in a variety of ways and presented to SLT managers within the region and the lead NHS Consortium responsible for purchasing SLT education in the context of a 'work force cycle'. Suggestions will be made as to possible ways forward using these data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Language and Communication Science, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB. m.t.gascoigne@city.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gascoigne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods*; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*