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🥹 this is so beautiful. #TLCO

Jason’s story- Jason has a diagnosis of #Parkinson's. After losing confidence with his mobility he began working with our Community Neuro Rehab Team. Jason spoke to us about his experience of the Parkinson's Exercise Group. See video ⬇️ vimeo.com/1027441797/9bd…

To celebrate #OTWeek24 the occupational therapists within CNRT have collated some of their assessments and interventions carried out with patients over the past week and created this word cloud demonstrating the power of #occupationaltherapy in community services!!!

🎉 Happy Allied Health Professionals Day 2024! 🎉 @lauramayoshea, Head of AHPs for Trafford & Manchester LCOs, shares her thanks to all our incredible AHPs for their dedication & care 🧡💙 We appreciate you! 🙌 #AHPsDay #TeamLCO #WeAreCommunity @LCO_AHPs

Our annual report is now available featuring improvements we help facilitate with #stroke & #neurorehab care teams and others. Prevention - TIA toolkit, CVD patch pilots, ESUS guidelines, sleep apnoea assessments @GMEC_SCN @amishra123 gmnisdn.org.uk/news/network-a…

Registration for the next round of @theneuroheroes online exercise classes is open. For more information and to sign up head here: pspassociation.org.uk/pspa-online-ex… #NeuroHeroes #MindBodySoul #ExerciseSessions #GetMoving #ExerciseForAll

Today at Ascot House, we celebrate our fabulous Laura. Laura has just finished the 4 year physio apprenticeship. Laura started with us as a support worker in 2016 and we are ever so proud, as Laura graduates on Friday! Well done you superstar 🌟🌟🌟@TLCOPhysio @TraffordLCO

What’s the problem with rehab anyway? 'I can tell you what’s NOT the problem with quality, person-centred rehabilitation that helps people live extra years in good health. It’s NOT a lack of care and commitment on behalf of multidisciplinary rehab teams who prioritise meeting a person where they are in their journey to recovery or managing living a better life with a long-term condition. It’s NOT that rehab services cost the NHS less in the long run compared to readmission through A&E and extended, unnecessary bed stays in hospital. It’s NOT that rehab is any less important in a person’s recovery than medicine or surgery. It’s NOT that within the existing services there is a lack of innovation. Such as Hope service in Grimsby which provides an integrated falls and pulmonary rehab service, using a multidisciplinary team of physios, nurses, support workers and volunteers – who cut hospital admissions from falls and COPD while also reducing social isolation to one of the most deprived populations in the country. The problem with rehab is that for decades it has been underfunded and understaffed when it could and should be the backbone of the NHS. On top of that the problem is the same as it has always been – we don’t count unmet need. There couldn’t be a more pressing time to have a serious discussion about what next for rehab, and how we can make changes across the NHS system to ensure everyone who needs it realises their right to rehab. Tomorrow I am part of a panel at NHS Confed Expo to highlight these important issues. I’m joined by Sarah Woolnough CEO of the King’s Fund, Duleep Allirajah from the Richmond Group of Charities, NHS England’s Director in the National Integrated UEC team Jennifer Keane, and Karen Poole Strategic Clinical Lead for Rehab at NHS Sussex. One of the burning topics for me is that community rehabilitation services that were never equitable or universally available in the first place are the ones that are now experiencing devastating cuts to balance the books. Failure’s definition is the false economy where the system achieves a zero-balance sheet by cutting physio posts, or other AHP roles in the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team, and therefore wins the short-term battle but loses the war. Although it’s arguable, in this scenario, that anyone meaningfully wins anything. We know it’s rehab services that are vulnerable, dare I say it low hanging fruit. We don’t count it and so its unseen and easy to cancel.  The problem is that people don’t simply go away, perhaps they do initially, but they resurface in the most expensive parts of the NHS and social care system. Cuts to rehab services are dire, not just for the patient but for the system. When rehab services are in place they help avoid unnecessary admissions, reduce ambulance queues, missed A&E waiting time targets, harmful long stays … and the list of tragedies goes on… Rehab can get people out of hospital and reduce lengths of stay (which are harmful) and keep people more well for longer. What a novel idea… live until you die! In the case of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks, rehabilitation prevents further progression and halves the number of hospital admissions - yet still only 50% of eligible patients receive it. There would be 50,000 fewer hospital admissions if access was 85%. Rehabilitation can reduce the risk of a further stroke by 35% and enable people to regain function and independence but only 32% get what is recommended. If rehab is so effective, why isn’t it universally available instead of a postcode lottery? We need the next government to not only recognise that rehab is as important as medicines and surgery. We need them to do something about it. A right to rehab takes all forms. We need policy translated into implementation.  Nobody would be given half a course of antibiotics or half the surgery they need. Why is it acceptable to cut short the life changing treatment rehab offers? In terms of staffing, the physiotherapy workforce is waiting to be used. There is no shortage of people who want to study physiotherapy. Add to that, those new workforces growing like sports rehabilitators and similar practitioners. Apprenticeships offer routes into professions that are building supply as well as ones that are already sought after. They are a definite part of the solution. If we use just 60% of the physio workforce, we are training during the next 5 years then we will have at least 12k NHS physios and 6k support workers. This means we need to increase the number of NHS posts, many of which could be working in community rehab services. If someone is eligible for rehab and the state doesn’t offer it, we know populations of people who can afford to pay for it and get it. We know their outcomes are much better. So, provision does exist. I am not suggesting for one moment that rehab shouldn’t remain free at the point of use but if we want to truly tackle health inequity then rehab must be accessible to everyone. We need to stop chucking rehab the crumbs and stop using rehab to make the balance sheet look better. Ensure rehab is respected, resourced, and retained because rehab is the enabler. Without rehab we will not fix the wicked problems. Emergency interventions save lives and rehab saves people.' - New blog by @SHazzard ahead of our panel at #NHSConfedExpo tomorrow. Join our panel discussion, As important as medicine or surgery: rehab's role in delivering a healthy nation, Thursday 13 June 8-9 am: nhsconfedexpo.org/conference-age…