We work with hospitals, nursing homes and senior care facilities, providing specialist consultation and professional training. Our services include continuing education workshops for healthcare professionals, hands-on caregiver training and dysphagia safety reviews.
We can also support facilities with thickened-fluid consistency protocols across departments, feeding safety guidelines, and temporary speech-language therapy locum cover.
Examples of our consultancy work
- Checking food and drink textures against IDDSI standards
- Case support and mentoring for junior speech therapists
- Clinical audits of dysphagia cases
- Writing treatment and service protocols
- Helping set up new services, such as FEES and sEMG biofeedback
Training topics
For speech therapists
- Physiology-based dysphagia assessment and treatment
- Dysphagia in specific conditions: stroke, neurodegenerative disease, head and neck cancer
- Advanced dysphagia management and clinical reasoning
- sEMG biofeedback as an adjunct to dysphagia therapy
- Videofluoroscopy (VFS) and FEES: how to perform them, interpret the results and plan management
For nurses and other healthcare staff
- How to carry out a water swallow test
- Understanding dysphagia and its management
- Swallowing difficulties in people with dementia
Other topics can be arranged on request.
Training in action
