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Dysphagia Rehabilitation Across Adult Speech & Language Therapy Services in the UK

Service-development initiative at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London

Please help inform a service development initiative at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London by telling us about your current dysphagia services for adults living with neurological impairment.

Your answers will be used to inform a charitable bid to develop an intensive dysphagia therapy service. Please can we kindly ask that only one speech and language therapist per team respond to the survey.
1.Where in the UK is your SLT service based?
2.In what setting are your SLT team based?
3.What level of dysphagia service is your team able to provide to adults affected by neurological conditions? (tick all that apply)
4.What equipment can you routinely access to inform your impairment therapy?
5.Which tools can you routinely access for impairment therapy?
6.What is the maximum amount of impairment therapy you are able to offer with direct SLT presence?
7.What is the maximum length of your dysphagia therapy sessions?
8.What is the maximum number of dysphagia therapy hours you are able to provide a patient with dysphagia?
9.At any one time, how many patients on your *entire team* SLT caseload might benefit from more intensive dysphagia therapy?
10.At any one time, how many of the following type of patient might exist on your *entire team* SLT caseload. A patient with:
1) Oral intake between level 1 (nothing by mouth) and level 4 (oral diet of a single consistency) on the Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS)
2) Persisting for more than three months
3) Amenable to intensive rehabilitation?
11.If a UK-based intensive dysphagia therapy service were to exist, how many patients might you and your team refer per year?