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Goal 5:
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the Care
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Care
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Implementation of the International Dysphagia Diets Standardisation Initiative
(IDDSI)
• Complete scoping exercise for individuals living in their own home
• PHA is undertaking a regional evaluation of this implementation process. The Trust will
contribute to same.
Development of the 'Safer Eating Drinking and Swallowing Training Programme'
(SEDS)
• Launch of e-Learning in Autumn 2019
• Development of Protocol-Guided-Swallow-Screening
• Scale up and spread to key nursing homes.
Implementation of new Diet Menus in Trust facilities to ensure Provision of
Dysphagia Friendly Foods
• Complete roll out of menu
• Engage with PHA 'Provision of Dysphagia
• Friendly Food' Project
• Further development of menu to include IDDSI
• Level 4: Pureed food
Weekend working in Speech and Language Therapy (SLT)
• Considerations to potentially move to a 7 day service.
SLT transformation in Emergency Department (ED) Project
• Gather further statistics and reflect on benefits of seeing patients in ED
• Be part of toolkits/care pathways for specific patient groups coming into ED
• Continuing to raise SLT profile in ED with the development of a focus board.
Promoting key messages in Children's Speech and Language Therapy (SLT):
Empowering parents and carers by providing evidence based information relating
to early interaction and communication skills
• The key messages have been developed into a calendar format which will be shared
with colleagues in midwifery and health visiting to further increase the reach and allow
the messages to be shared even earlier with parents.
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Goal 5: Integrating the Care