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Community therapy team – professionals page

This page has been specifically formulated for professionals to inform and guide individuals and teams when referring onto the service. For more information, please use the University Hospitals Tees intranet.

Inclusion criteria for community therapy

Do

  • Over 18

  • Living in the Redcar and Cleveland or Middlesbrough catchment area

  • Medically stable

  • Unable to attend hospital appointments or requires an environmental assessment

Exclusion criteria

Don’t

  • Under the age of 18

  • Medically unstable

  • Manual handling assessment only

  • Equipment provision only

  • Bed provision only

  • Pressure care only

  • Acute respiratory interventions

  • Unable to engage in rehabilitation due to pain or cognition

  • Wheelchair or specialist seating only

  • If mental health is primary condition

If any of the above issues are raised, please consider referral to alternate services including (contact numbers can be found below):

  • Adult social care – for manual handling, specialist seating and equipment provision
  • Community nurses – for bed provision and pressure relieving equipment
  • Urgent community response – for respiratory interventions which can be managed in the community (non-life threatening
  • Wheelchair services – wheelchair assessments

Referral process

Community therapies

If the service user has rehabilitation goals and you wish to submit a referral however do not have access to the new referral form, please email [email protected] to request a copy of the form.

Social care

If the service user does not have rehabilitation needs however requires a moving and handling assessment / environmental assessment / equipment provision, please fill in the social care referral form and email it to the relevant service.

Alternatively, if you do not have access to the referral form, please use the details below to request a copy of the referral form.

Contact numbers for alternate services