medico-legal

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) provides a range of medico-legal services.

Expert witness reports
Our consultant clinical neuropsychologists and some other senior clinicians are experienced expert witnesses familiar with the Civil Procedure Rules, 1998. As practising clinicians rather than professional experts, they maintain an up-to-date and realistic perspective on potential for rehabilitation.

In-depth inter-disciplinary assessments and rehabilitation
We can provide detailed and extended assessments of someone's ability to respond to rehabilitation, through admission to one of our brain injury rehabilitation centres.

In this case there would be an initial assessment and report from a consultant clinical neuropsychologist to ensure the suitability of this type of service. The cost of this is £350.

If someone is considered suitable and able to benefit from such a service an estimated admission date will be given.

Once someone is admitted, careful observations and recordings of their difficulties and response to rehabilitation will be made. Regular reviews will be held and reports provided by the inter-disciplinary team under the clinical leadership of the consultant clinical neuropsychologist.

If further rehabilitation is likely to be productive this will be discussed with the client, the service user's family and their legal representatives, and the goals will be established. Full costings will be provided. Each stage in the rehabilitation process will be carefully reviewed and reported upon.

As an additional facility to explore how a service user can cope with greater independence, our brain injury rehabilitation centres have access to transitional living units which are ordinary houses located close to the main centres. These have 24 hour staffing and are supervised by the clinical team. Service users can be transferred to these houses in order to assess and enhance their ability to live independently. For some this may be a prelude to returning home (with or without the need for ongoing support) whilst for others it may demonstrate their ability to live in supported housing.

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust provides a range of supported houses from single occupancy flats to small ordinary homes for two to four people. We have larger units for those with greater care needs than can be met in the smaller supported houses.

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