HC Deb 08 March 1994 vol 239 c161W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list hospitals in England which employ multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams for treating local patients who have suffered severe head injuries.

Mr. Bowis

The Department is providing funding of over £1 million per year to the following hospitals and units to develop rehabilitation services for people with head injuries:

  • Regional rehabilitation centre, Hunters Moor hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Leeds head injury team, St. Mary's hospital, Leeds
  • Derbyshire royal infirmary and Derby City hospital, Derby
  • City hospital, Nottingham
  • Central Sheffield university hospitals
  • Regional neurological rehabilitation unit, Homerton hospital, London
  • Rivermead rehabilitation centre, Oxford
  • Rayners Hedge physical rehabilitation service, Aylesbury
  • Stroke and rehabilitation unit, Royal Cornwall hospital (City), Truro
  • Frenchay healthcare trust, Bristol
  • Neurobehavioural rehabilitation unit, St. Edward's hospital, Cheddleton, and Neurorological rehabilitation unit, Haywood hospital, Burslem
  • Community unit, Worcester district health authority

Other national health service trusts and health authority units are also developing services.