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NHS Rehabilitation Medicine Services
The Rehabilitation Services in Leeds are designated a National Demonstration
Centre in Rehabilitation.
They serve an immediate catchment area of
750,000 persons (for secondary care) with tertiary referral from
a population of 3.5 million in Yorkshire. The Leeds based Rehabilitation
Medicine clinical services are provided by Leeds Teaching Hospitals
NHS Trust and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Other Rehabilitation
Medicine in Yorkshire include those provided by Airedale NHS Foundation
Trust, MidYorkshire NHS Trust; Harrogate District Hospital NHS
Foundation
Trust at Chapel Allerton Hospital (Leeds Teaching Hospitals
NHS Trust) there
is a designated multidisciplinary specialist 22 bedded neurological rehabilitation
unit. The patient group consists of those people admitted to
the acute wards with neurological conditions or who develop neurological
conditions
and who require specialist inpatient rehabilitation prior to
discharge
from hospital. There are close working relationships locally
with Rheumatology and Orthopedics and at the acute sites with neurology
and neurosurgery.
The present Chapel Allerton Hospital was opened in 1994 by HRH
the Duchess of Kent. A modern, purpose-built facility designed
to address
the needs
of people with disabling conditions caused by musculoskeletal
and
neurological diseases.
Chapel Allerton Hospital has nationally
and internationally
recognised centres of excellence in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
Medicine and houses the NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical
Research Unit. The
Chapel Allerton Orthopaedic Centre (CHOC) opened in the hospital
in January 2005 and is the Trust's dedicated centre for the
diagnosis, management
and treatment of adult patients with orthopaedic conditions.
Within the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust there is a liaison rehabilitation
service at St James’s University
Hospital which include providing
assessment and rehabilitation treatment and advice for inpatients on
medical and surgical wards and critical care environments who have neurological
conditions causing disability. This work is supported by a dedicated
multidisciplinary team consisting of a Clinical Specialist Occupational
Therapist and a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. In practice this
means working closely with physicians and surgeons, nurses and therapists
on acute medical and surgical wards to enable people on these wards to
access high quality rehabilitation. In addition, there are developments
at Leeds General Infirmary to provide major trauma centre services including
rehabilitation. Seacroft Hospital accommodates the large Regional Amputee
Rehabilitation Service. This service has recently been awarded the title “National
centre of excellence” for its holistic approach to patient
care. There are also wheelchair, special seating and orthotics
services on
this site. The hospital also has the specialised Pain management
service.
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust provides community based
medical rehabilitation services to adults with neurological conditions
requiring long-term rehabilitation and disability management.
This
service
comprises the Community Rehabilitation Unit, a 10-bedded unit
which assesses and
manages medical and rehabilitation needs of disabled people living
in the community. The Community Stroke Team and the newly established
multidisciplinary
community neurology team provide rehabilitation input to patients
in their own homes following discharge from the acute hospitals.
There is
also a range of other services on site including the William
Merritt Disabled Living Centre an independent charitable organisation
providing
advice on equipment for people with disability as well as specialist
driving assessment centre.
The Rehabilitation Services in Wakefield serves an immediate
catchment area of 250,000 persons (for secondary care) with tertiary
referral
(Spinal Cord Injury) from a population of 3.5 million in Yorkshire.
The clinical
services are within MidYorkshire NHS Trust. At Pinderfields Hospital,
Wakefield (30-minute drive from Leeds) there is a Neurological
Rehabilitation Centre with in-patient and outpatient rehabilitation
facilities including
spasticity services. The Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Centre
(also on this site) provides life long management of patients
with traumatic
and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries and spinal paralysis.
Further rehabilitation facilities including in-patient and outpatient
services are based at Airedale and Harrogate District hospitals.
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