Stanford on Soar
NHS PLANS FOR HALL. As well as being the home for the Ministry of Defence and Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall looks set to also provide a similar service through the NHS.
An eight week consultation has been launched by NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to look at the opportunity presented to open an NHS Rehabilitation Centre in the East Midlands, and this is likely to be Stanford Hall.
Currently, specialist rehabilitation services are delivered from hospitals across the region, with neurological rehabilitation provided at Linden Lodge at the City Hospital in Nottingham.
Central Government has provided £70m to build an NHS Rehabilitation Centre (NHSRC) for NHS inpatients on the same site as the Defence and Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate, near Loughborough.
A new centre will increase bed capacity in the region and provide NHS patients with access to a skilled team of experts working in a purpose-built facility with access to the latest technology and equipment – all under one roof.
Patients would continue to access outpatient appointments and rehabilitation services in local hospitals throughout the East Midlands and to take forward this opportunity CCG say they would need to transfer existing inpatient rehabilitation services in Nottingham to the new purpose-built facility.
CCG say they believe the proposal would create a high-quality centre of rehabilitation excellence and
contribute to a deficit in rehabilitation capacity as well as improve access to services and improve outcomes and the patient experience through a new clinical model.
A spokesman for CCG says the scheme would enable them to respond to changes in future service needs and models and reduce pressures on the acute bed base.
“The NHSRC would provide high-quality care, underpinned by leading expertise and best practice, in one of the best facilities in the NHS,” adding there is a significant opportunity to improve lives, develop leading expertise in rehabilitation and, at the same time, use NHS resources more efficiently.
The consultation is running from July 27 to 18 September 18.