The In-patient Therapy Teams transferred into the newly-formed Community Healthcare Division at the start of this month. 

They comprise of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Support Staff from across both the CRH & HRI sites.

Our Therapists provide a range of specialist interventions to our in-patients and those presenting to A&E across a seven day service and over-night for on call respiratory care.

Their expertise include respiratory care and on call emergency interventions to our most ill patients, admission avoidance work in A&E. We also have colleagues with mental health and cognitive assessment and evaluation capability, through to rehabilitation interventions to patients following a stroke. They are a critical and integral component of our clinical teams and patient care here at CHFT.

This transfer has brought Community, Out-Patient, In-Patient and Children’s Therapies at CHFT back under one Division and into its own Directorate. 

Anthony Dawson, our In-patient Therapy Team Leader, said: "This is a real opportunity for staff on the ground to work collectively with senior colleagues. We will be exploring new opportunities to work differently with services and individuals to further enhance the compassionate care that they already deliver to our patients and their carers. 

"There are some exciting times ahead that will give Therapies at CHFT a real opportunity to show case the expertise of our Therapists across clinical specialities and to be active in influencing clinical care and organisational change across CHFT.  It is a fantastic platform from which we can embed the ‘AHP into Action’ Document – our AHP call to action issued by the Chief Allied Health Professional in 2018’.