Welcome to SCOPe HSCP Voice

1 September, 2023

A very warm welcome to SCOPe HSCP Voice, a new format intended to connect health care professionals from within and outside our SCOPe* HSCP community. Set up by the SCOPe HSCP Directorate in St. James’s Hospital (SJH), we hope this platform will add to existing communications, helping to share information and learning with a particular focus on research and innovation.

SCOPe HSCP Voice has been in the planning for a little while and special thanks to the SCOPe Research and Innovation & Communication Committees for their invaluable assistance. Thanks, too, to our partners in SJH Communications and IMS for enabling this development.

SCOPe HSCP Voice is born out of a motivation to build cultures that foster innovation, improvement and research, the scaffold for the big leaps needed as we collectively face the challenges ahead. Our hope is that SCOPe HSCP Voice will be an inclusive platform, enabling HSCP and multi-disciplinary colleagues from within and outside SJH to share ideas, experiences and research in pursuit of better outcomes. 

Our five main aims for the Blog are to:

Value different perspectives, hearing from health care professionals in practice, academia and management.

Optimise visibility about the impact and value of HSCP services.

Influence scale up and spread of innovative, evidence-based services.

Create opportunity to share knowledge, promote collective dialogue and assist in developing networks of practice.

Engage HSCP at all levels in research and innovation  .

We aim to post monthly Blogs which you can follow by going to www.stjames.ie/blog/scopehscpvoice 

We’re also on twitter – @stjamesdublin. Please do follow and contribute – this is your opportunity to showcase your work, its impact and to learn from others. See Contributor Guidelines for details.

*The SCOPe HSCP Directorate in St James’s Hospital represents a subset of five disciplines including Speech and Language Therapy, Social Work, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.

Alison Enright  Article by Alison Enright, Director of SCOPe HSCP

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