UKABIF Directory of Rehabilitation Services for People with Acquired Brain Injuries

Brain Injury Services, Essex

CONTACT DETAILS
Name:	Mrs Janet Luck
Position in Organisation:	Executive Director
Address:	Elm Park Station Road Ardleigh Colchester Essex CO7 7RT
Telephone:	01206 231055
Fax:	01206 231596
Email:	jluck@partnershipsincare.co.uk
Website:	www.partnershipsincare.co.uk

THE SERVICE
The Service is non-NHS
Accepts:	Self-payers NHS Referrals Social Service Referrals Medical Insurance Personal Injury Litigation
Service Details:	Patients accepted by GP referral Patients accepted by referral from Medical Consultants Patients accepted by non-medical referral Patients accepted by self referral Patients accepted from anywhere, including outside the UK
Service Provided:	Post-acute rehabilitation refers to people who do not regularly need the services of an acute hospital but who continue to need intensive specialist rehabilitation and are not yet ready to move back home or to an intermediate rehabilitation unit or to a long-term residential unit (17 beds available) Slow-stream (Intermediate) rehabilitation refers to people who (a) no longer require such intensive rehabilitation as in post-acute rehabilitation settings and (b) although currently are not able to return home, might do so within 3 years. (3 beds available) Long Term / Residential Care / Continuing rehabilitation (6 beds available) Out-patient rehabilitation refers to people who are living at home and attending a rehabilitation department or unit for specific programmes of rehabilitation therapy and treatment) (4 current service users) Services to support people in their own homes refers to out reach rehabilitation, case management services and community brain injury teams (3 current service users)
Setting(s) in which the service is provided:	Patients own home Community rehab unit/centre Individual (Stand-alone) rehab unit or centre
Disciplines Involved:	The number of sessions per week specified below is a guide. Please contact the organisation directly for futher information. Activities Coordinator (5 sessions per week) Clinical Neuropsychology (3 sessions per week) GP (1 sessions per week) Neuropsychiatry (3 sessions per week) Occupational Therapy (5 sessions per week) Physiotherapy (3 sessions per week) Specialist Nursing (Nursing ratio of qualified staff per patient is 7.00:1) Speech and Language Therapy (5 sessions per week)
Specific services offered:	Behavioural Management Social and Recreational Activities
Who is responsible for the programme of treatment provided to individuals:	Dr A Bashir, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
Age of patients on admission:	18 and over
How long after injury can patients be admitted?	Acute patients not normally admitted
Nursing Care:	Accept patients who have nursing requirements Accept patients who require 24 hour nursing care Accept patients who have no functional understanding of language Accept patients with pre-morbid psychiatric, drug abuse or alcohol problems Accept patients with psychiatric problems Accept patients who wander Accept patients with challenging behaviour Accept patients who display physical aggression Accept patients under Sections of the Mental Health Act Accept patients with severe physical disability Accept patients who require permanent accommodation from the service
Supplementary Information:	Training placements available for qualified staff (Professions accepted: Nursing) Training placements available for trainees (Professions accepted: Psychology)

STATEMENT
Brain Injury Services Essex, which comprises Elm Park, a 17 bed rehabilitation unit and two 3 bed satellite units in nearby villages, seeks to establish an ethos of rehabilitation and care which takes account of, and builds upon, guidelines for the accepted branches of health care provision and clinically well-recognised conditions relevant to its client group. Our residents are enabled and encouraged to live as full and active a life as possible in an environment which is safe, pleasant and comfortable. These principles of 'ordinary living' are promoted within each of our facilities.

STATEMENT

Brain Injury Services Essex, which comprises Elm Park, a 17 bed rehabilitation unit and two 3 bed satellite units in nearby villages, seeks to establish an ethos of rehabilitation and care which takes account of, and builds upon, guidelines for the accepted branches of health care provision and clinically well-recognised conditions relevant to its client group.

Our residents are enabled and encouraged to live as full and active a life as possible in an environment which is safe, pleasant and comfortable. These principles of 'ordinary living' are promoted within each of our facilities.