AREA BRAIN INJURY TEAM

The Area Brain Injury Team is a specialist team established to address the needs of individuals who have suffered traumatic brain injury, their families and carers. The multidisciplinary team comprises a Consultant Neuropsychologist, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist and Social Worker. The Team is based in Portadown, within the Craigavon and Banbridge Trust, but offers a service across the whole Southern Board area, including the Armagh and Dungannon, and Newry and Mourne, Community Health and Social Services Trusts.

The Team sees individuals who have suffered traumatic brain injury at all stages of the rehabilitation and re-integration process, and also works with their families and carers. Priority is given to new injuries, but people with older injuries are also eligible for the service. The Team aims to give information, to help co-ordinate and enhance other services and to promote independence and integration. It also seeks to ‘identify unmet need’, that is, to gather information about other services that are needed and should be developed, and it organises specialist training and education events,

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