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Robotic surgery in focus

3 August 2022
Super Surgeons is a three-part series broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 this summer.

Meet Robyn our News & Events Co-ordinator

13 May 2019 | Personnel
ROBYN COOPER, News & Events Co-ordinator. Robyn joined Pinpoint Scotland a few months ago and would be delighted to hear from you. If you have a course or conference...

Ray Clarke on ESPO 2023

5 December 2022
Declan Costello talks to organising committee member Ray Clarke about the 16th Congress of the European Society of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, taking place 20–23 May 2023 in Liverpool, UK.

A bittersweet finding

6 October 2017 |
This is an elegant study, documenting the role of, and activation of, nitrous oxide in chronic sinusitis. Bitter taste receptors (TR2) have recently been identified as novel ‘players’ in sinonasal innate immunity and in chronic rhinosinusitis. The receptors are triggered...

Adult Hearing - Global Responses of CI Services to Covid-19

2 September 2020
@13.00 - 14.30 BST

MATTU: Guildford Sinus and Skull-Base Surgery Course

17 June 2019 -19 June 2019 | ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
A 3 day hands on suns and skull base dissection course for senior trainees and consultants using fresh frozen cadaveric specimens. The course will comprise a series of lectures with much of the time devoted to lab dissection. There will...

Head and Neck Cadaveric Dissection Course

18 June 2019 -19 June 2019 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, Maxillofacial Surgery
This is a well established head and neck dissection course using Thiel fixed cadavers which gives delegates the most realistic dissection experience outside of an operating theatre. Over 2 days delegates will cover a huge range of operative procedures from...

Screening for hearing loss in primary care

14 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Hearing impairment is one physical disability that is increasing in prevalence in society in general, and in older adults in particular. Approximately 34 to 36 million Americans report suffering from some degree of hearing impairment with the number rising to...

Patient-centred audiological rehabilitation: facilitating and hindering factors for implementation

29 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Introduction Patient-centred care in the health sector is a worldwide concern [1, 2]. Patient-centred rehabilitation is characterised by availability, appropriateness, preference, and timelines [3]. A consensus report by the Institute of Medicine [4] defines a patient-centred approach as ‘providing care...

Leadership challenges in the world 
of AQP and accreditation – learning from experience

29 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
The words ‘choice and competition’, ‘any qualified provider (AQP)’ and ‘accreditation’ have irrevocably become part of audiology jargon in the last two years in England. Commissioners who chose ‘Adult Hearing Aid Services for age-related hearing loss’ have begun the process...

Case studies – transformational benefits of using connecting hearing aids

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
While hearing aids can provide great benefits there remain some challenging situations for people with hearing loss. These include listening in background noise, groups, using the telephone and listening to TV / music. Hearing aids with integrated wireless functionality allow...

Scientific advances in mapping syndromic hearing loss

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
From more than 22000 genes that we humans have, approximately 3000 genes are associated with human communication. There are tens of syndromes which have been identified to be accompanied by hearing loss. Disorders of almost every organ of the body...