Community rehabilitation

The Community Rehabilitation Service is made up of a team of specialists who work with anyone over 16 who needs rehabilitation. We will work with people and their families to improve their independence, irrespective of their diagnosis. We also work closely with Social Services.

Care can be provided in people’s homes, a day hospital, residential or nursing homes, and clinics.

For more information about disabled access for this service, please click here.

Team

Our team includes: 

• Occupational therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Speech and language therapists
• Specialist nurses for neurology, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis
• Rehabilitation support workers
• A specialist therapist for multiple sclerosis
• Home Accident Prevention officers

Services

Our team of nurses, therapists and support workers provide ongoing support for patients with:

• all progressive neurological diseases – Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease
• stroke
• the elderly who are frail and need help to regain independence
• falls
• osteoporosis

We also provide the therapy input into palliative care (support for the end of life), intermediate care and STAR (Short Term Assessment and Reablement) service. This is a Social Services home care scheme which provides up to six weeks of therapy and reablement in a patient’s own home.

We host the Home Accident Prevention Service, providing minor changes to people’s living environment to make it safer (e.g. carbon monoxide testing).

Routine referrals are seen within two weeks, urgent referrals seen the same day. Patients can refer themselves by calling the number in their locality.

Patient Stories

Please feel free to share your experiences of this service. Please e-mail your views to swbh.comms@nhs.net

Contacts

This service operates from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

To contact a member of the team, call 0121 507 2664, and select option 5.