But…
My NHS trust has a funny idea of rehabilitation sometimes.
My current ward is a “slow-stream rehabilitation” ward, except very little actual rehabilitation takes place there. It’s essentially a continuing-care ward for people with chronic mental health problems, and usually a fair share of physical problems as well. OT support is very limited, and the ward is so short-staffed that the “activities worker” invariably winds up being sucked into the general nursing. What little rehabilitation that takes place is more about trying to maintain existing skills than developing new ones. Few patients are ever discharged. New admissions tend to be literally a case of dead men’s shoes.
I thought the trust was being over-zealous in their definition of “rehabilitation”.
At least, until I discovered that the palliative care wards are placed within the Rehabilitation Directorate.
Where are they supposed to rehabilitate them to? Valhalla?
It does have an entirely different meaning to the publics perception of “rehab”.
Oh and thanks for putting that awful song in my head!
Does the PCT know it’s commissioning, essentially, chaplaincy services to rehabilitate folks so they can leave to a better place?
A curious way to spend their coin, methinks!
You obviously work in a very optimistic NHS trust where they think they can rehabilitate palliative care, or one who hasn’t actually really thought which service should go under which directorate!
Ruth
Maybe they know something ?