UKABIF Directory of Rehabilitation Services for People with Acquired Brain Injuries

Headway Hurstwood Park
CONTACT DETAILS
Name: Mrs Norma Speller
Position in Organisation: Chairman
Address: Headway House
Jackies Lane
Newick
Lewes
East Sussex
BN8 4QX
Telephone: 01825 724323
Fax: 01825 724363
Email: info@headway-hp.org.uk
Website: www.headway-hp.orh.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 only accepted from: Sussex
Service Provided: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) (56 current service users)
Services to support people in their own homes refers to out reach rehabilitation, case management services and community brain injury teams (4 current service users)
Setting(s) in which the service is provided:Patients own home
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
Art Therapy
Counselling
Occupational Therapy
Physiotherapy
Speech and Language Therapy
Specific services offered:Behavioural Management
Social and Recreational Activities
Vocational Rehabilitation

Who is responsible for the programme of treatment provided to individuals:Client Manager
Age of patients on admission:16 and over
How long after injury can patients be admitted?Acute patients not normally admitted
Patients usually admitted more than three months after injury
Nursing Care:Accept patients who are not motivated to return to employment and/or independent living
Accept patients with cognitive impairment
Accept patients who wander
Accept patients with challenging behaviour
Accept patients with severe physical disability
Supplementary Information:Training placements available for trainees (Professions accepted: Anything connected with ABI
Occupational Therapist
Nerophsychologist)
STATEMENT
At Headway Hurstwood Park we are experienced in the following areas:-
Advice
Information
Access to services
Support
Secondary rehabilitation
We exist to help individuals realise their true potential. This is reflected in its range of specialist services working to the following principles:-
Empowerment
Integration
Involvement
Opportunity
Social interaction
Choice
Independence
We believe that everyone who has sustained a brain injury has the capacity to improve. That everyone who has had a brain injury has the right to the best appropriate care and facilities to encourage that improvement to happen.