All placements great and small: An analysis of clinical placement offers made by SLT services

This paper will present the results of a survey of clinical placement offer s for one academic year in one particular region. The data presented confir m that there are issues of shortfall and inconsistency across speech and la nguage therapy (SLT) service providers within this region. This information has been analysed in a variety of ways and presented to SLT managers withi n the region and the lead NHS Consortium responsible for purchasing SLT edu cation in the context of a 'work force cycle'. Suggestions will be made as to possible ways forward using these data.