SLT guidance
This web page is designed for use by care / nursing home staff in Oxfordshire.
It should be used to guide management of various difficulties that residents may have with their eating and drinking and direct to other services if appropriate.
What is dysphagia?
Dysphagia is the medical term for eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.
Although this website provides guidance for care home staff, appropriate clinical decision making should be assumed and overseen by registered nurses and if in doubt advice should be sought from a Speech and Language Therapist
Other professionals
This page is specifically for care / nursing home staff. For all other professionals and enquiries please see our main Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy page.
Page last reviewed: 23 April, 2025