Rehabilitation is the process of helping a person who has suffered an injury restore lost skills and so regain maximum self-sufficiency.
Rehabilitation services are vital to the care of patients following a major trauma. Major trauma practitioners and rehabilitation coordinators are new roles in the health boards and are vital in ensuring seamless care and are key points of contact for patients returning from the major trauma centre to a trauma unit or the community. We believe rehabilitation as close to home as possible is an important element to an effective major trauma network. Specialist rehabilitation will continue to be provided from Rookwood Hospital in Cardiff and Neath Port Talbot Hospital. As part of the ongoing development of the network, and subject to approval, there will be further improvements of local and community based rehabilitation including core therapy roles as well as some specialist roles.