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Good Practice Guide and examples
- Quality requirement 1: A person-centred service
- Quality requirement 2: Early recognition, prompt diagnosis and treatment
- Quality requirement 3: Emergency and acute management
- Quality requirement 4: Early and specialist rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 5: Community rehabilitation and support
- Quality requirement 6: Vocational rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 7: Providing equipment & accommodation
- Quality requirement 8: Personal care and support
- Quality requirement 9: Palliative care
- Quality requirement 10: Supporting families and carers
- Quality requirement 11: Caring for people with neurological conditions during admission
- Chapter 3 of the NSF: Neuroscience networks
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Quality requirement 7: Providing equipment & accommodation
People with long-term neurological conditions are to receive timely, appropriate assistive technology/ equipment and adaptations to accommodation to support them to live independently, help them with their care, maintain their health and improve their quality of life.
Optua Community Brain Injury Services, Suffolk
Optua Community Brain Injury Services is a leading disability organisation in Suffolk, providing a range of services to disabled people. Rethink aims to give disabled people opportunities to play an active part in the community and to recognise their right to equal participation in every aspect of life.
Transitional Living Unit (TLU), Haberdasher’s House, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London
The Unit was established in 1993 to help adults with acquired brain injury return to the community and live as independently as possible. Using a goal-orientated approach, it works with residents who have differing physical, cognitive, behavioural and functional abilities, to achieve the aims that they identify.
The Unit has produced a report highlighting best practice in approaches to joint working between social services and health authorities in the area of supported independent living units, which has involved representatives from Health Authorities, Social Services Departments, Care Agencies and Housing Departments.
Further reading
The Integrating Community Equipment Services (ICES) website includes a guide on Emerging Good Practice and Innovation which contains examples of good practice related to provision of equipment and ICES.
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Overview of the examples
How the examples were chosen and evaluated, and how to submit an example.
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