Test Community Rehabilitation Team :: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

What Our Patients Say

I would like to thank all the team at CRT for the help you gave me at a difficult time. It is good to know that there are people there that care. The support I got allows me to stay in my own home. Thank you again!

I am now able to walk back to the rugby club and back which has been amazing as I can get out more - couldn't of done it on my own so thank you.

Provided me with helpful ideas which I had never thought of. Has made getting around house and also “all over washing “ so much safer .

The Strength and Balance class. I found the whole experience very helpful in regaining my confidence and getting out and about, both our trainers were excellent and very supportive and gave good advice. All in all a great service.

The Community Rehabilitation Team works within the community to support patients that have deteriorated in their ability to manage at home because of a change in their health.

Referrals come from many sources. These include GPs, Consultants and the wider multi-disciplinary team such as District Nurses, Speech and Language Therapists and Integrated Neighborhood Teams.

We have locality bases to cover Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley and Rossendale.

The service provides person-centred assessment, advice and rehabilitation programmes involving the patient based on what matters to them about remaining independent within their own home and their local community. This includes those who have lost confidence and ability with their activities of daily living due to ill health or living with a long-term condition and wish to remain at home requiring some rehabilitation and therapy interventions to regain their skills and achieve their goals and maximum potential.

The service's main aim is to support patients with physical health problems, for example lung or heart conditions that may be affecting their mobility or ability to manage daily activities. This includes people who have fallen or are at risk of falling. Patients are visited in their own home and an assessment to discuss and check for environmental and other contributing falls risks, is completed. We will then discuss options for reducing the risks and managing falls.

The service has a Head of Service and an operational lead and a clinical lead to support the service delivered is safe, effective and personal.

The service consists of the following staff:

Physiotherapists (PT)

A physiotherapist will help you to improve your movement, manage pain, and recover from injuries or illnesses affecting your physical function.

Occupational Therapists (OT)

Work with you to identify things that make it hard for you to do what you want to do in life. These could include physical difficulties or problems with memory and thinking, vision, or sensation, and problems such as anxiety. They will work with you to practice and develop your skills and confidence.

Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants
Work alongside our Therapy Team to assist in the delIvery of services supporting clinicians, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.