Hunters Moor Neurorehabilitation News
Demand grows at brain injury centre
The UK’s newest centre for treating people with complex physical and behavioural problems following brain injury has enjoyed its first half-year since openingwith a number of successful discharges and referrals.
Hunters Moor, in Birmingham, is one of very few neurorehabilitation facilities in Britain that has the expertise and infrastructure to treat both physical and behavioural problems on one site.
The 45-bedroom centre has been fully operational since March 2011 and is now working with people with a wide range ofproblems and conditions related to brain injury and is becomingwidely recognised as a leading centre of excellence among PCTs, PI lawyers and other brain injury specialists. Hunters Moor houses a neurobehavioural centre for clients who require short-term intensive treatment, reintegration into the community from long stay care or slow stream rehabilitation at their own pace.
It also has a slow stream neurorehabilitation facility designed for people with traumatic or acquired brain and spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy, stroke and sub-arachnoid haemorrhage.
Managing director John Donovan said: “We give all our patients a full assessment when they arrive here and our team of vastly experienced experts develop a bespoke treatment plan that is aimed at restoring their skills, increasing their ability to be as independent as possible and helping them to achieve their full potential. Since we opened we have already completed several discharges of people who have been successfully rehabilitated and we are also working closely with PCTs and health authorities across the country.
As the hospital continues to develop, Hunters Moor’s management team may consider expanding into other areas of the country, although its current focus is on servicing on a national level from its Midlands base.
For more information on Hunters Moor, which is now accepting admissions, please visit www.huntersmoor.com or call 0121 777 9343.
To refer to the unit please contact Michelle Kudhail on (0121) 777 9343 or 07969 502432. Email michellekudhail@huntersmoor.com or Prof Mike Barnes at m.p.barnes@btinternet.com
