Community Rehabilitation Service (Central Lancashire)

Our Community Falls Prevention Service provides a specialist service for adults who have fallen or who are at risk of falling. Patients are visited in their own home and a multifactorial assessment, to check for environmental and other contributing falls risks, is completed. We will discuss options for reducing risks of falls and agree a care plan for any on-going treatment or equipment.

Community physiotherapy referrals are accepted from health professionals only. 

Our team can see service users who are not able to attend a clinic or outpatient setting for physiotherapy input. Physiotherapy is provided in the home situation, sometimes as part of a reablement package. 

If someone feels they have physiotherapy needs they should discuss with their GP so that they can refer to the most suitable service. This service also supports with mobility assessments/provision of walking equipment and home exercise programmes.

The Intermediate Care Team in Central Lancashire provide interventions for people with ill health who have lost confidence and ability with their activities of daily living, wish to remain at home and require some rehabilitation and therapy interventions to regain their skills, and achieve their goals and maximum potential.

Rehabilitation can take place in a residential setting for a few weeks enabling people who are not yet safe to return straight home from hospital, to step down from a hospital bed into a community bed for rehabilitation. They must have the potential to improve following assessment and treatment by the rehabilitation team. This service also includes the Intermediate Dementia Care Service.

The Rehabilitation services work in partnership with social services, Lancashire County Council and private agencies (Spire) to provide the care. Rehabilitation is a free service.