This pages shows all active posts from the category, Rehabilitation Services. Posts in this category discuss some aspect of service design, delivery or change. Most will relate to the UK, unsurprisingly, but it is probable that similar considerations and issues arise in most countries.
Convalescence, recovery, and rehabilitation
In 2007 Peter Halligan and I asked, “Is it time to rehabilitate convalescence?”. No one…
Community Rehabilitation
In 1980 I started a three-year project, a large (n = 700+) controlled clinical trial…
Rehabilitation potential
What is a person’s ‘Rehabilitation Potential’? Often this question is asked by one clinician of…
A model of person-centred rehabilitation
This blog post is based on an extensive systematic review that generated a sound, theoretically-based…
Ready for discharge?
Is this patient ready for discharge? This question must be asked endlessly by care staff,…
Rehabilitation is holistic, or is it?
Rehabilitation usually promotes itself as holistic, considering the patient as a whole and being patient-centred….
Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, or Transdisciplinary?
Teams use many different words to describe themselves. A team recently asked me to help…
Rehabilitation research news
Today, 18th July 2021, the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), one of the…
Goal attainment scaling.
One Friday 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs) I took part in a debate organised…
NICE – post-Covid guide
One December 18th 2020 the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published…
Rehabilitation; a social service?
Two incidents precipitated this blog. During discussion after a talk on an evidence-based definition of…
Nursing home rehabilitation
This blog reviews a recent policy document from NHS England, which aims to introduce expert…
Help change rehab.
This is a true incident. A friend of mine is helping out as a physiotherapist…
Rehabilitation for Long-Covid
Medical services responded rapidly to the very obvious, severe acute challenge of increasing numbers of…
‘Specialist’ rehabilitation services
The word, specialist, when preceding rehabilitation, concerns me. The natural corollary of adding the adjective…
