Speach and Language Therapy (SALT) - Meetings, agendas, and ...

Table of contents
Executive summary
Section Title Page
1. Introduction 9
1.1 Background to scrutiny of health service 9
1.2 Background to speech and language services 9
1.3 Review method 9
2. Description of current services 11
2.1 Children’s services provided by the NHS 11
2.1.1 Caseload review and priority setting 11
2.1.2 Caseload 12
2.1.3 New demands 14
2.2 Children’s Services provided by the Education Authority 15
2.2.1 Funding 15
2.2.2 Provision 15
2.2.3 Summary of parents’ and staff comments in 2001 16
2.2.4 Recommendations from the LBBD review 17
2.2.5 Working in schools 18
2.2.6 Working with parents 19
2.2.7 Situation in 2004 19
2.2.8 Special Educational Needs, Review and Assessment Team 19
2.2.9 Multi Agency Work 20
2.2.10 Joint professional training programme 20
2.2.11 Education staffing levels 20
2.2.12 Future: 22
2.3 Complaints about the existing service 22
2.3.1 Parents’ views 22
2.3.2 Staff views 25
2.3.3 Voluntary sector views 26
2.4 Adult services 28
2.4.1 Local provision 28
2.4.2 National recommendations 29
2.4.3 Contacts 30
2.4.4 Adult caseload 30
2.4.5 Local provision of services for those with difficulty
swallowing
31
2.4.6 Audit for adult inpatients and outpatients at St George’s 32
Hospital December 2003 with difficulty swallowing
2.4.7 Audit of tracheotomy patients - January 2004 32
2.4.8 An analysis of time spent by therapists on different activities 32
2.4.9 The planning process 33
2.4.10 Complaints of the adult service 34
2.5 Learning disabilities 35
2.5.1 Children’s services 35
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