Meet the team

Thank you for visiting our page. Our team are all passionate about helping people to better understand and manage throat symptoms that could be affecting breathing or cough. 

Our speech and language therapy (SLT) team offers outpatient assessment and therapy clinics in North Tyneside, Hexham, Blyth, Wansbeck, Morpeth, Alnwick, and Berwick. Regular nasendoscopy clinics are available in North Tyneside and Wansbeck hospitals.

All SLTs in our team can offer treatment in outpatient clinics, or via telephone or video call, depending on your preference.

Jen Butler

Jen is a team lead speech and language therapist (SLT) for respiratory disorders in Northumbria. She has worked with people who have laryngeal disorders for over 12 years.  Jen is an expert practitioner in nasendoscopy procedures, supporting diagnosis and management of complex laryngeal disorders that affect breathing, cough, swallowing and voice. She works in outpatient SLT clinics, asthma multidisciplinary clinics, and chronic cough clinics. Jen also supports nasendoscopy assessments for inpatients who have swallowing difficulties. 

Jen is also a clinical lecturer at Newcastle University, has contributed to several national research projects and clinical position papers, and has presented at international conferences about voice and upper airway disorders. Jen is passionate about raising awareness about upper airway disorders, to promote earlier diagnosis, and easier access to specialist services.

Liz Green

Liz is a speech and language therapist (SLT) based at Wansbeck General Hospital, Liz specialises in working with people who have voice and respiratory difficulties.

She leads the nasendoscopy assessment clinics at Wansbeck General Hospital and works in out-patient SLT clinics in both Wansbeck Hospital and Morpeth NHS Centre.

Liz also supports nasendoscopy assessments for inpatients who have swallowing difficulties.

Conor Hunter

Conor is a speech and language therapist (SLT) specialising in voice and upper airway disorders including dysphonia, chronic cough, and breathlessness.

Conor led the development of the SLT patient information leaflets for Northumbria Healthcare.

Conor has SLT outpatient clinics at North Tyneside General Hospital, Blyth Community Hospital and Morpeth NHS Centre. He works in nasendoscopy clinics at North Tyneside and Wansbeck General Hospitals, and attends multidisciplinary asthma clinics.

Louise Peace

Louise is a team lead speech and language therapist for voice disorders at Northumbria and jointly manages the voice and upper airways team with Jen Butler.

Louise has worked with people who have voice disorders for 19 years with this trust, and people with respiratory disorders for the last 8 years.

Louise also works with patients who have acquired neurological swallowing difficulties.

Louise is based at North Tyneside General Hospital doing outpatient clinics and does clinics at Blyth and Wansbeck.

She performs nasendoscopies for voice, upper airways, and swallowing disorders, both for out-patents and inpatients.

Gemma Rose

Gemma works at both Berwick and Alnwick Infirmary, and sees people with voice and respiratory difficulties for assessment and therapy.

She sees people in clinic, or can support people via telephone, video-call or at home if required.

Gemma’s respiratory work forms part of her ‘general community caseload’ in and around the beautiful locality of Berwick.

This community caseload includes seeing people with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties.

Gemma has practiced as a speech and language therapist since 2008.

Jane Sharp

Jane is an assistant speech and language therapist at Northumbria and has worked with the team for more than 2 years.

Jane helps to coordinate clinics, answer patient queries, and carries out telephone assessments with patients who have chronic cough and laryngeal hypersensitivity.

She also supports nasendoscopy clinics at North Tyneside and Wansbeck Hospitals and ensures that our patient resources are up to date, and available for all.