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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 10: Supporting families and carers
*An asterisk in an example indicates that its approach could be adapted for other long-term conditions.
Quality requirement 10
Carers of people with long-term neurological conditions are to have access to appropriate support and services that recognise their needs both in their role as carer and in their own right.
*Carers Project, Preston
The Project has produced an A-Z Directory of Services for Carers in the Preston area. This has been placed on their website. This enables carers and health and social care professionals to download relevant sections and also makes it possible to update the directory on a regular basis. The project also produces a card outlining what local organisations can offer for carers. A copy of this card is on every patient locker in local hospitals.
Family Services, Community Head Injury Service (CHIS), Vale of Aylesbury
Specialist family services are provided for relatives and close friends of people with acquired brain injury (ABI) referred to the CHIS at Aylesbury PCT.
Headway, Dorset
Headway Dorset is a voluntary organisation and a limited company, which serves individuals with a brain injury living in Dorset. The aim of the service is to enable individuals to live close to their home, community and carers and to ensure that carers are given appropriate levels of skilled support.
North Hampshire - Support for carers of people with acquired brain injury
See pages 35 and 51 of the Action on Neurology report for information on this example of good practice: a focus group and questionnaire to identify the support needed by carers of people with acquired brain injury. Key outcomes have included raising the profile of Headway carer support meetings, exploration of a support telephone line manned by carers and potential recruitment of an acquired brain injury co-ordinator to act as single point of contact.
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