Care link-up for brain injured will create jobs

Jan 6 2010 by Andrew Mernin, The Journal

A NEW initiative to help people with brain injuries recover in their own homes is set to create 40 jobs across the North East and the Midlands.

Two North East healthcare businesses have joined forces to create a new national home care service to aid patient with their rehabilitation programmes once they are discharged from hospital.

Gateshead-based Hunters Moor Neuro Rehab and Philip Parkinson Homecare (PPH), of Newcastle, have teamed up to create individually tailored homecare packages to help people with brain injuries.

Next spring, Hunters Moor will open a 45-bed residential unit in Birmingham and PPH will deliver recommended home care packages for patients who are discharged from the unit.

Meanwhile the joint venture will also bring the packages – which will help people with injuries as a result of road, medical or sporting accidents to recover at home – to the North East.

The partnership will create up to 40 new posts in the North East and Birmingham for experienced carers and those looking to forge a new career in the care sector.

Hunters Moor was jointly founded by Professor Mike Barnes, president of the World Federation of Neurological Rehabilitation and chairman of the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum.