Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Difficulties
Sharing learning and best practice across Health and Social Care to reduce the risk of death by choking and to safeguard people with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.
- When
- Thursday mornings, 10.00am – 11.30am
- Where
- Online, on Zoom
- ECHO Lead
- Alison Ferris
This network is open to health and social care staff in Northern Ireland. Register on Moodle, the ECHO learning platform, to get access to sessions, recordings and resources. Already registered? Log in to Moodle.
About this network
Work to reduce the risk of death by choking and safeguard people with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties has been identified as a key priority for Health and Social Care by the Department of Health. Dysphagia NI was established in 2018 as a transformation project to focus on sharing and improving best practice in this area.
In response to the Safety and Quality Reminder of Best Practice Guidance – Risk of serious harm or death from choking on foods (SQR-SAI-2021-075), the Chief Medical Officer wrote to the HSCB and PHA outlining extreme concern at the preventable deaths, and asked for an assessment of further regional interventions. One of the recommendations of the subsequent Choking and Learning Review was to establish an ECHO platform to share learning and best practice.