Proposal

PROPOSALS

REHABILITATION UNIT

Bradford needs a rehabilitation unit, one where, once a person leaves the ward they can go onto to rehab, where they will have the facilities and the right professionals to care for them.

DAY CARE

With combined rehabilitation

To give a purpose

To have compulsory counselling

To help gain understanding skills, confidence, cognitive skills, executive and planning

Skills, problem solving.

To have structured activities. A way back to some normality.

RESPITE

Brain injury is known as the HIDDEN DISABILITY. A person can look ok, yet have many hidden problems.

Respite would not only help the survivor, it is essential for the carer.

Majority of respite caters for people with physical disabilities

Wagtails and St.Ives are two such places

It is paramount that respite is to include people with a HIDDEN DISABILITY.

SHARED CARE

Brain injured feel safe knowing there surroundings

Being secure

Trusting the carers

Knowing the importance and being accepted.

COUNSELLING FOR BOTH CARERS AND THE BRAIN INJURED

Once a person has sustained a brain injury through what-ever means, the after-math affects the whole family.

Not only has the victim had there life turned up-side down, so too has the partner/carer.

Often the partner/carer is known as “The Forgotten Survivor “their needs are not met, yet their world has changed beyond recognition.

EARLY INTERVENTION

Headway Bradford is doing everything possible (by way of sending posters and leaflets) to highlight the need of early intervention in the A & E departments, so a person gets the right diagnosis, also that the person is sent to the correct WARD,

WARDS

Many people who sustain a brain injury, once out of A & E or ICU are sent on to the wrong ward, if a person is EVEN SUSPECTED OF HAVING A BRAIN INJURY they should in the first instance be sent to a Neurological ward, where assessments and treatment can be carried out in the right environment with the right doctors, Speech therapists, Physiotherapists ETC;-

NEUROLOGIST AND REHABILITATION CONSULTANT

Bradford is in great need of having our own Neurologist and Rehabilitation Consultant, along with all the specialists to help a person once they enter the Neurological ward after leaving either A & E or ICU, all to often a person who has sustained a brain injury is placed on an inappropriate ward,