Specialist Services

Breaking the Circle of Support

The specialist support we offer not only will help the client but also offers extremely good value and can prevent additional intervention from health, social care or other agency , for instance readmission to hospital or residential rehabilitation.

• All our services are designed around the individual and not the organisation – Headway Cambridgeshire is fully flexible!
• We have transformed our day service model into a social rehabilitation programme delivered across the county. With a more outcome focussed approach we are able to provide support to enable individuals to maximise their potential
• We provide social inclusion, peer support and friendship for isolated individuals
• We are the one ‘constant’ for all brain injured people in Cambridgeshire
• We act as the go-between for health and social care

Value for Money

The Personal Social Services Research Unit (University of Kent) (Ref.1) has recently published its Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2012. Here are some examples:

Rehabilitation day centre for younger adults with brain injury: £91 per place per day

Headway Cambridgeshire cost: £64 per place per day

Local authority day care for people with intellectual disabilities: £64 per day

Headway Cambridgeshire cost: £64 per day

NHS community occupational therapist: £30 per hour

Community occupational therapist (local authority:£40 per hour

Headway Cambridgeshire cost: £30 per hour

Re-ablement service: £42 per hour of contact

Headway Cambridgeshire Independence cost: £26 per hour of contact, £21 per subsequent hour

Training

We offer a wide range of training for clients, families and also those who work with people with a brain injury.

If you have a brain injury, you are not on your own in Cambridgeshire.

(Ref.1) Unit costs available 2011/12