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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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Family Services, Community Head Injury Service (CHIS), Vale of Aylesbury
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Last modified date:8 February 2007
Services include:
- an annual series of educational workshops;
- follow-up workshops;
- individual career counselling and
- specialist counselling for couples and families.
The aims of Family Services, CHIS are:
- to increase awareness and understanding of the nature and effects of ABI;
- to provide information and advice about the management of ABI and
- to facilitate and promote positive coping and adjustment in family and friends.
The service has produced the following tools which they are willing to share:
- CHIS information pack (includes details of family services);
- relatives' educational programme and
- multi-agency, county-wide brain injury professional training workshop programme which includes a full day workshop on working with families (talks, illustrative video tape examples and practical small group work).
For further information please contact:
Andy Tyerman at
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