Neuro-oncology - Integrating Rehabilitation Services
Once a patient has completed their treatment in acute care, the process of preparing the patient towards their eventual discharge occurs. This can be affected by where they will be repatriated, whether they have ongoing or newly developed cognitive impairment and what their care needs are.
How can these questions be answered:
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What happens to inpatients after treatment?
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The discharge process?
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The psychological gap in care?
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Is enough being achieved in the community?
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Skills and professional expertise?
These questions and the processes/information that currently support them are very localised and developing a picture of local services to enable the discharge process requires integrating communications between professionals who may not have regular contact.
Two identical workshops on 23 July and 29 July 2008 will bring together people from across the UK to an 'Issues and Ideas' workshop. To generate solutions that we can all play a part in piloting, to get the evidence, to integrate the services, to make care seamless.
The implications are enormous and can enable development in all neurological conditions support. So we want people from across the neurological care spectrum.
They are FREE! too. We do need sponsors however.
Network website: http://nlcn-ltnc.wiki.zoho.com
Network contact: Charlie Young, charlie.young@uclh.nhs.uk, tel. 07908 626620