UKABIF Directory of Rehabilitation Services for People with Acquired Brain Injuries

Centre for Brain Injury Rehabilitation

CONTACT DETAILS
Name:	Mr Douglas Gentleman
Position in Organisation:	Consultant and Lead Clinician
Address:	Royal Victoria Hospital Jedburgh Rd Dundee DD2 1SP
Telephone:	01382.423196
Fax:	01382.423070
Email:	a.e.milne@tpct.scot.nhs.uk
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THE SERVICE
The Service is NHS
Service Details:	Patients accepted by referral from Medical Consultants Patients only accepted from: Tayside
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 (16 beds available)
Setting(s) in which the service is provided:	Designated ward/individual unit in an acute hospital
Disciplines Involved:	The number of sessions per week specified below is a guide. Please contact the organisation directly for futher information. Clinical Neuropsychology (10 sessions per week) Dietetics (5 sessions per week) Occupational Therapy (25 sessions per week) Physiotherapy (28 sessions per week) Rehabilitation Medicine (10 sessions per week) Social Work (4 sessions per week) Specialist Nursing (Nursing ratio of qualified staff per patient is 0.70:1) Speech and Language Therapy (20 sessions per week)
Specific services offered:
Who is responsible for the programme of treatment provided to individuals:	consultant and multi-professional team
Age of patients on admission:	16 and over
How long after injury can patients be admitted?	Acute patients not normally admitted Patients can be admitted 2-6 weeks after injury Patients usually admitted 6-12 weeks after injury Maximum length of time in years after injury that patient can be admitted: rarely more than six months
Nursing Care:	Accept patients who have nursing requirements Accept patients who require 24 hour nursing care Accept patients requiring regular intravenous infusions Accept patients with tracheostomies Accept patients with cognitive impairment Accept patients with severe physical disability
Supplementary Information:	Medico-legal assessments/reports undertaken Training placements available for qualified staff (Professions accepted: occupational therapy, speech & language therapy, nursing, medicine) Training placements available for undergraduate students (Professions accepted: medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy, nursing, clinical psychology, dietetics) Training placements available for trainees (Professions accepted: clinical neuropsychology)

STATEMENT
This NHS unit opened in 1997 for younger adults (16-65) from the Tayside area of eastern Scotland who have a recent severe acquired brain injury (trauma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, stroke, or post-craniotomy) and are likely to need and benefit from an intensive, structured, multiprofessional inpatient rehabilitation programme. Average stay is five months, and over 90% are discharged home. Treatment is based on multiprofessional assessment, setting and monitoring of agreed interdisciplinary goals, early multi-agency discharge planning, support for family and carers, and medium term follow-up at a brain injury clinic to address issues that arise only after return home.

STATEMENT

This NHS unit opened in 1997 for younger adults (16-65) from the Tayside area of eastern Scotland who have a recent severe acquired brain injury (trauma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, stroke, or post-craniotomy) and are likely to need and benefit from an intensive, structured, multiprofessional inpatient rehabilitation programme. Average stay is five months, and over 90% are discharged home. Treatment is based on multiprofessional assessment, setting and monitoring of agreed interdisciplinary goals, early multi-agency discharge planning, support for family and carers, and medium term follow-up at a brain injury clinic to address issues that arise only after return home.