This online, interprofessional Dysphagia Toolkit is the result of several years of work carried out through CLARHC-funded service-improvement projects in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
The Toolkit offers a compendium of practical resources and information to support educators/trainers in delivering training sessions and to promote dysphagia as a patient safety issue.
There are three main sections. Each starts with a detailed contents page, which also indicates the document format. Some are in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint format so that they can be amended/customised to suit a range of purposes. The sections are:
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- Background to the development and testing of the Toolkit; the Inter-Professional Dysphagia Framework; Skills for Health and Training Needs Analysis ·
- Resources for trainers to deliver Awareness and Assistant Dysphagia Practitioner training; information about the other levels of the Framework and tips for trainers ·
- Information resources for all about quality of life, nutrition, hydration, alternative forms of feeding, aspiration, administering medicines and mouth care
The Toolkit can be freely accessed directly from: www.dysphagiatoolkit.nihr.ac.uk
