Food and Fluid Terminology (IDDSI)

Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 10 Apr 2019

St George’s University Hospitals are updating the terminology used when making diet & fluid recommendations for people with dysphagia (difficulties swallowing). We will be using the IDDSI framework. See below information on IDDSI and details of food/fluid recommendations. What is the IDDSI framework? The International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) have …
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Wandsworth Community Feeding Service

| Updated 30 Jul 2025

About Our Service Feeding support within Wandsworth community is separated into two distinct services. Multi-Disciplinary Feeding Team; for children with avoidant and restrictive behaviours within mealtimes. Email: mdtfeeding@stgeorges.nhs.uk Community Paediatric Dysphagia Service; for children with swallowing difficulties when eating and/or drinking. Email: communitypaediatric.dysphagiaservice@stgeorges.nhs.uk If you are concerned about your child’s …
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Paediatric Intensive Care

Paediatric Intensive Care

Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 17 Oct 2018 | Tags: children Intensive care paediatric paediatric neurosurgery

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is were over 600 critically ill children come every year. There is probably no more difficult event for parents and families than having their child admitted in PICU, so we have a dedicated team of around 40 nurses, 20 doctors and many other staff …
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Paediatric Physiotherapy

| Updated 7 Aug 2020 | Tags: child children paediatric physiotherapy Service

Acute Paediatric Physiotherapy Service There is an inpatient physiotherapy service provided across the paediatric wards at St George’s Hospital. This service provides input for various patient groups including; Acute Neurology, Neurosurgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Oncology, Neonates, Surgery, Medical and Respiratory. Physiotherapy input ranges from assessment (including regional specialist assessment), acute …
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Paediatric Physiotherapy in Special Schools (Greenmead Primary School)

| Updated 18 Jun 2020 | Tags: child children community physiotherapy Respiratory Service

The Physiotherapy team at Greenmead provide a broad range of services on an individualised needs-basis to optimise the physical needs and gross motor development for pupils. Services include: Physiotherapy assessment and treatment sessions; equipment provision; postural management, class and home programmes; liaison with outside professionals and referrals to other services …
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Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapy Service

| Updated 21 Sep 2018 | Tags: child children paediatric physiotherapy Respiratory Service

The paediatric respiratory physiotherapy team at St George’s cover both inpatient and outpatient respiratory caseloads. The inpatient caseload includes daily respiratory physiotherapy cover to the intensive care units (mainly paediatric intensive care) and also to the wards. Due to our regional respiratory service at St George’s, we also provide an …
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Acute Paediatric Physiotherapy Service

| Updated 18 Nov 2019 | Tags: acute child children paediatric physiotherapy Service

There is an inpatient physiotherapy service provided across the paediatric wards at St George’s Hospital. This service provides input for various patient groups including; Acute Neurology, Neurosurgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Oncology, Neonates, Surgery, Medical and Respiratory. Physiotherapy input ranges from assessment (including regional specialist assessment), acute rehabilitation and organising specialist …
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Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Service

Services at Queen Mary's Hospital, St George's Hospital | Updated 23 Jun 2025 | Tags: child children community physiotherapy Respiratory Service

The community paediatric physiotherapy service provides a high standard of Physiotherapy care across the Wandsworth Borough for children aged 0-16 years with complex needs (such as Cerebral Palsy, neuromuscular conditions, global developmental delay, etc.) as well as musculoskeletal conditions (such as knee pain, back problems, sports injuries, etc.) The service …
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Prehabilitation before surgery with our Get Set 4 Surgery programme

Prehabilitation before surgery with our Get Set 4 Surgery programme

| Updated 20 Sep 2024

Our Get Set 4 Surgery programme encourages physical and mental preparation before surgery, aiming to reduce complications and improve recovery outcomes.
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New Beginnings newsletters

Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 29 Mar 2019 | Tags: caesarean EBCD Maternity New Beginnings Operative birth teamwork

  co design 1 Co Design 2  Co design has begin – we have met with staff and mums to start work on the two most popular themes from the project: “Improving antenatal information about operative birth” and “Personalising the theatre process”. Watch this space for more details of project …
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