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Headway Essex

Location and Contact details 2 Boxted Road Mile End Colchester Essex CO4 5JD Telephone: 01206 845945 Email: dayservice@headwayessex.org.uk http://www.headwayessex.org.uk/

Type of organisation Voluntary Sector Service Descripton of organisation Community Based Service miles (straight line) miles (approximate road distance) Entry last updated Mar 21, 2012

Further Details

Headway Essex cares for people who have acquired a brain injury and this may be through sporting or work accidents, road traffic accidents, assault, illness or disease.
Support is given in two ways. Through the Headway Centre, which is a day centre in Colchester where rehabilitation activities take place. These activities are designed to help people to rebuild their lives after brain injury. The centre has 72 places available each week.
Headway Essex also has a Community Support Service. The Community Support Team, provides telephone support, information on the different aspects of brain injury, support groups, training for carers, specialist literature on brain injury, home and hospital visits and educational talks. Currently over 272 families are supported across Essex.

Services available

	ABI Specialist	National	Regional	Local
Art Therapy
Community support
Day Activities
Day Centre
Information
Leisure Activities
Music Therapy
Training (for clients/patients)

This service adheres to the following Regulatory Frameworks / is affiliated to the following bodies:

Affiliated to Headway UK

Referrals can be made by

GP
Consultant
Healthcare Professional
Self/Advocate/Family
Other professional eg Social Care/Case Manager

How are services paid for?

Publicly funded - individually commissioned

	Regularly	Sometimes	Never
NHS
Social Care Services
Jointly funded by NHS & Social Care Services

Privately funded (anyone can purchase)

Typical duration that a service is offered

Not time limited.

This Service was mapped by Eastern Region ABI. See HERE for more information

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Services available are defined by the following EHIG Rehabilitation Codes

For an explanation of the codings please click here

SOMEONE TO TALK TO

[Code 110]
Patient description
Information and guidance over a continuum. Family support and outreach. Advocacy

Sites
All sites

Description of rehabilitation input
Information and guidance over a continuum. Family support and outreach. Advocacy

SUPPORT AT HOME

[Code 115]
Patient description
Medically stable. Able to live in the community alone or with others.

Sites
Client's home/the community

Description of rehabilitation input
Enablement, support and care to develop social skills, stamina, confidence, attention & leisure pursuits, sorting out benefits, day supervision & respite care. Specific attention paid to Community involvement & integration (further education etc), Personal social development and empowerment and structuring activity towards achieving goals. Includes support that may be purchased with a personal budget.

SOMETHING TO DO

[Code 120]
Patient description
Medically stable. Wanting to engage further with the community, alone or with others.

Sites
All sites

Description of rehabilitation input
Organised activity in the community offering opportunities to to develop social skills, stamina, confidence, attention & leisure pursuits, Specific attention paid to: Community involvement & integration (further education etc), Personal social development and empowerment Structured daytime activity within the individual's competency framework. Includes Day activities, Day Centres, clubs and activity that may be purchased with a personal budget.

This service is defined by the NMDS (National Minimum Data Set) codes as:

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No Data for NMDS