The Speech and Language Therapy department aims to provide comprehensive assessment, advice and treatment of communication and swallowing impairments arising from a variety of causes.

Speech and language therapists are core members of the multidisciplinary team working with stroke patients as well as across all general wards and within the intensive care setting. They also work alongside consultant colleagues in a range of specialist clinics as well as providing instrumental assessment of swallowing disorders using videofluoroscopy and FEES (Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing).

An outpatient service is available for patients referred with voice disorders, those with head and neck cancer, babies and children with cleft lip/palate and neonates with feeding disorders. Some home/school visits are also arranged if necessary.

Services provided

Joint clinics

Frimley Park Hospital

• Joint Voice clinic with ENT consultant Jonathan Hern

Wexham Park Hospital

• Joint Voice Clinic with ENT consultant Nigel Bleach
• Head and Neck clinic with ENT consultant Ram Moorthy
• Cleft lip and palate clinic

Contact information

Judith Anderson, Head of service: 0300 613 6926
Frimley Park Hospital (inpatients): 0300 613 4369
Frimley Park Hospital (outpatients): 0300 613 4050
Wexham Park Hospital (inpatients and outpatients) : 0300 615 3510

Patient information

The Stroke Association: www.stroke.org.uk
Parkinson’s Disease Society: www.parkinsons.org.uk
Multiple Sclerosis Society: www.mssociety.org.uk
Motor Neurone Disease Association: www.mndassociation.org
Cleft Lip and Palate Association: www.clapa.com
Macmillan Cancer relief: www.macmillan.org.uk
Changing Faces: www.changingfaces.org.uk
National Association of Laryngectomee clubs: www.laryngectomy.org.uk
Carers UK: www.carersuk.org
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists: www.rcslt.org