St Mary's Hospital Rehabilitation Service

The Community Rehabilitation Unit (CRU) is a 17 bed inpatient rehabilitation service based within primary care and is part of the community based rehabilitation service for Leeds . The unit addresses the ongoing multi-disciplinary rehabilitation needs of adults with long term or progressive disability arising from neurological disease. The focus of service is to provide ongoing specialist rehabilitation to people living in the community . Often this means that individual patients may be seen several times as an inpatient on the Unit during the course of a year (depending on need). This allows patients to benefit form periods on intensive rehabilitation and to build on these new skills in the community. The unit accepts referrals from any Leeds community or hospital based social or healthcare professional. Referrals from outside the Leeds area are considered individually and administered through the contracting process. The initial assessment involves a half day multi-disciplinary team assessment with input from doctors in rehabilitation medicine, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, nurse, dietitian, speech and language therapist. Goals are negotiated and agreed with the patient/carer and if appropriate the patient is admitted to the CRU for one to three weeks. The CRU has a community liaison nurse will usually see clients at home prior to their admission. The CRU staff have use single case notes to facilitate co-ordinated interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. Specialist rehabilitations ervices within the CRU include spasticity management, orthotics, lymphodema service, pressure care, bowel / bladder management.

The Young Adult Team (YAT) , a community-based service for younger people with physical disability aged 16-25 years. The aim of this service is to support young people through the transition to adulthood. The young people who are referred to the YAT predominantly have a variety of congenital or childhood acquired neurological conditions that have caused persisting physical disability. The YAT works closely with public, private and voluntary sector organisations including health, social services, education, and employment services.

The Head Injury Team (HINT) which provides a community-based rehabilitation service for younger people with traumatic brain injury and their families.

The William Merritt Disabled Living Centre (WMDLC), a registered charity, providing independent information and advice about equipment and practical aspects of daily living for people with disabilities, their carers and professionals. WMDLC is a designated centre for specialist driving assessments.

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