Brain injury can challenge every aspect of your life – walking, talking, thinking and feeling – and the losses can be severe and permanent. It can mean losing both the life you once lived and the person you once were.
We all think ‘it will never happen to me’, but every year around 350,000 people are admitted to hospital with an acquired brain injury.
Read moreUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSussex) was formed on 1 April 2021. The Trust was created by a merger of Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, running hospitals in Brighton and Haywards Heath, and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, running hospitals in Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing and Chichester. It is an acute teaching hospital trust working across five main …
Read moreThe service includes delivery and installation, servicing and maintenance, and collection of equipment that has been ordered by a prescriber, GP, nurse, therapist or a social services provider. We also make adaptations to people’s homes.
Read moreMillbrook Healthcare is a private company providing a range of services, including to the NHS. In Sussex it has the following services centres: East Sussex Wheelchair Service East Sussex Community Equipment Service
Read moreWe provide acute hospital and community health services for people living in East Sussex and surrounding areas. Full details of our Rehabilitation Services can be found on the Rehabilitation pages of our website. This includes our After Trauma Team, a team of multidisciplinary clinicians based primarily at our East Sussex Trauma Unit at Conquest Hospital, but covering the whole of …
Read moreThe Sussex Wheelchair and Seating Service provides wheelchairs to people who have a permanent disability and whose ability to walk is therefore permanently restricted. It is a department of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. The wheelchair service will loan a wheelchair to anyone who has a long term mobility problem and is classified as unable, or virtually unable to walk …
Read moreBased at Eastbourne District General Hospital and Conquest Hospital.
Read moreSussex Trauma Network is linked with Stoke Mandeville National Spinal Injuries Centre. Referrals should be submitted via the National Spinal Injury Cord Database: www.spinalreferrals.nhs.uk
Read moreBorrow or hire a wheelchair from the British Red Cross for a single trip or for short-term use.
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