New Care Provision for ABI
A flurry of new centres have opened or plan to open their doors over the coming months. In this issue we focus on five centres at St Andrews, Northampton, Hothfield Manor in Kent, the East Midlands Centre for Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation in Warwick, St Cyrils in Warrington and the new Neville Childhood Epilepsy Centre.
St Andrew’s Healthcare is launching the first dedicated service for adolescents with challenging behaviour following a brain injury – The Acquired Brain Injury Service for Young People. The new residential rehabilitation unit will facilitate the recovery of young people with acquired brain injury who as a result experience emotional difficulties and challenging behaviour in addition to physical health care problems.
The new Young Persons Service which opens to admissions in November 2010 will be the first service in the UK that is dedicated solely for the rehabilitation of adolescents who have challenging behaviour following a brain injury. The service is dedicated to in-patient care and rehabilitation following brain injury. It is built to low secure standards. There are a total of 12 beds on the new adolescent unit, including a number of rooms which can accommodate physically disabled patients. The service is currently open to referrals and the team will carry out assessments with a view to admission later this year.
This residential rehabilitation service will facilitate the recovery of young people from age 13 who have acquired a brain injury causing serious behavioural problems and subsequent impact on their mental and physical health. Treatment is delivered by an interdisciplinary team including doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, dieticians and teachers. There are onsite Ofsted inspected school facilities to allow children to pursue their education at the same time. The service is being developed following a £2million refurbishment of one of the existing wards.
Dr Sally Cubbin MRCPsych MSc DipCBT DCH
Consultant Psychiatrist
National Brain Injury Centre
Kemsley Unit
St Andrew's Healthcare
Billing Road Northampton NN1 5DG
Direct line: 01604 616118
www.stah.org
The Huntercombe Group opened a new centre in Ashford, Kent on 1st March. Hothfield Manor complements existing Huntercombe services in the South East which include Blackheath and Roehampton in London and Peter Gidney (also in Kent).
Hothfield Manor Centre is a specialist residential service for adults. It offers twenty five bedrooms including seven purpose built bungalows – the new extension will provide
nineteen spacious rooms and two independent living flats together with two dining rooms and two communal rooms. There are dedicated therapy rooms and a hydrotherapy pool, gym and consulting rooms.
The service will now also provide specialist rehabilitation for people with cognitive physical and/or behavioural difficulties following an acquired brain injury.
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Castlebeck is to open a specialist Acquired Brain Injury service in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, in June.
A brand new service, The East Midlands Centre for Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation at Warwick Lodge is situated in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The centre will accommodate fifteen people and provide psychiatric treatment, specialist rehabilitation and support to people who have behavioural and psychiatric disorders caused by a brain injury. The centre will accept both men and women over the age of eighteen whether or not they have an associated physical disability.
The centre will accept patients from other psychiatric services, acute hospital trusts in the recovery period following brain injury, other brain injury services, and the criminal justice system and will be able to admit patients who are detained under the Mental Health Act.
Referrals will be accepted from 8th March 2010 ready for the opening of the unit in June 2010. All enquiries and referrals should be made through the manager, Jacquie Owen.
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East Midlands Centre for Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation
at Warwick Lodge, Warwick Road
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
LE13 0RD
Telephone: 01664 484194
Fax: 01664 484196
St Cyrils
St George Healthcare Group officially opened the St Cyril’s Rehabilitation Unit in Chester on 13th October 2009. The Group purchased the unit at the end of 2008 from Western Cheshire Primary Care Trust and has invested £6m into adapting the building to meet highly specialist and complex neuro rehabilitation requirements.
The 20 bed unit has en-suite rooms, each containing a plasma TV, spacious recreational and communal areas and a sensory garden for use by both patients and their visiting families and carers. There are also two transitional bungalows for pre - community assessments providing a complete care pathway to independence.
Patients have access to the units physiotherapy gym, multiple occupational and conventional therapy suites utilising advanced computerised tools to work with physical and cognitive impairments.
A new, state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool has been constructed on site and will be an integral part of both in-patient and outpatient rehabilitation programmes. A comprehensive care pathway has been developed and will be implemented by the multi disciplinary staff team all of whom have strong rehabilitation backgrounds and expertise.
The unit provides rehabilitation services for the most acute and long term neurological conditions such as acquired brain injuries, stroke, spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disorders.
Our senior clinicians have also developed specialist rehabilitation packages for spasticity management, low awareness/vegetative state assessments, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis relapse and chronic pain management.
For information please contact St Cyril’s on 01244 665330
Rehabilitation at NCYPE
The new Neville Childhood Epilepsy Centre at the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) hosts a wide range of diagnostic, assessment and rehabilitation services for young people aged three to 19 with epilepsy and other neurological conditions.
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t the Centre on the NCYPE’s Surrey campus, a multidisciplinary service is provided for children and young people who have sustained a brain injury (either through accident or illness) or who have undergone neurosurgery. The service is also available to help individuals whose underlying medical condition has deteriorated and who require a period of intensive support to regain or improve skills.
The aim is to provide the highest standard of care and treatment, working towards restoring lost skills, encouraging alternative skills and preventing other problems developing throughout the recovery. The treatment programme aims to improve physical and cognitive function, communication, self esteem and emotional wellbeing, oro-motor and feeding skills and also those needed for daily living including recreation and vocational skills.
Discharge planning commences after initial assessment and involves the child, family, advocate and relevant agencies in order to facilitate successful transition. Part of the programme may include supporting the child as they are integrated into full-time education and may involve one or more therapists working with the school and local therapy teams.
The NCYPE offers follow-up support with the Outreach Practitioner. This service includes a one year follow-up.
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