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‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

The ear-brain connection in cochlear implant users: learning to listen again

While the cochlear implant (CI) has been a tremendous success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the implantation outcome still varies across CI users [1]. Some demographic factors, such as duration of deafness, and peripheral factors, such as electrode placement,...

George Davey Howells Prize 2019

Prof Ray Clarke (Liverpool) and Mr John Watkinson (Birmingham and London) have been awarded the George Davey Howells prize for Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery- 8th Edition, published 2018 .The George Davey Howells prize is awarded by the...

New RSCI President-Elect

Professor Laura Viani has been elected President-elect of the RCSI. Prof Viana will take up office 2022-2024. Prof Viana becomes the second female RSCI President in over 200 years and the third of the ENT specialty. Prof Laura Viani is...

BCIG: Roundtable - Returning to the CI clinic

On 23rd of June 2020, BCIG organised a virtual round table. 5 UK CI Specialists chatted to the BCIG Chair Helen Cullington about infection control and face...

AOT President, Manish George, highlights the many issues COVID-19 has created for trainees

It is clear that COVID-19 has created multiple wide-reaching issues for trainees as a whole. Whilst an earlier preoccupation of mine has been to...

Congratulations to our KJ Lee book competition winner!

We are delighted to announce that Raluca Horhat, an ENT Specialist in Romania, is the winner of our recent KJ Lee book competition, winning a prize copy of Leeway: Reaching Beyond Expectations. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition...

Robotic surgery in focus

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

Ray Clarke on ESPO 2023

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.

Speech Testing

Gareth Smith, MSc, AuD,Consultant Clinical Scientist (Audiology), Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, UK. gareth.smith8@nhs.net@garethlsmith How often do patients come to hearing healthcare professionals having noted a difficulty hearing quiet beeps in a silent environment? Rarely? Never? Yet they...

ENT Masterclass on YouTube

The 19th National ENT Masterclass will take place from 24 to 26 January 2025 at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. The Masterclass will also be available on the ENT Masterclass® YouTube Channel, along with a wealth of previous classes, completely free. ENT...

ERS Abstract submission

The 30th Congress of the European Rhinological Society will take place in Budapest, Hungary, in June 2025. The ERS-ISIAN-IRS 2025 committees have decided to extend the submission date for abstracts to: 17 February 2025 CET 23:59.