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It’s time to rethink rehab
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Follow us I cannot tell you how proud I was when It is the focus of this magazine and you

Community Health online at we opened our new specialist stroke can read more about our plans to transform
www.kentcht.nhs.uk/CHonline rehabilitation unit in Margate this summer. community rehabilitation (pages 15 to 19) and
The unit at Westbrook House provides seven hear from patients like Tony Sinden, who was
You can read or listen in
alternative formats using days-a-week therapy for survivors of stroke, recently discharged home after a period of
ReciteMe. making sure they receive the support they need to recovery at Westbrook House.
recover their independence and return home. You will also read about some of our
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If you would like to advertise When I started my career in the NHS some 35 amazing younger patients, like Skyla Maclarty
in this magazine, please phone years ago, older or frail patients were tucked up (page 12), who was born profoundly Deaf and
Charlotte Morgan on in beds, in their pyjamas for days at a time, to is supported by our Children’s Hearing Service
0300 790 0506. ‘recover’ from whatever condition had led them and Ollie Williams (page 8), the one in 10,000
Write to us to needing a hospital bed in the first place. child who has been helped by our Paediatric
Kent Community Health NHS Of course, we now know this is not what is Dietetics Service.
Foundation Trust, Trinity House, best for patients, who should be up, dressed We hope you enjoy
110-120 Upper Pemberton, and taking an active role in regaining their
Ashford, Kent TN25 4AZ independence, by building everyday activities into this issue.
The team their recovery plans. Mairead
Editor-in-chief Julia Rogers The ‘Westbrook model’ will transform the
Email: juliarogers1@nhs.net way community rehabilitation is delivered. The
Editor Chloe Crouch change we have been talking about for so long,
Designers Joe Brocklehurst which is so urgently needed, is no longer a future
and Hollie Ryan dream, it is happening now, here in Kent.
Contributors Jo Treharne,
Kelly August, Jane Barlow,
Angela Corpe, Beverley Hunt,
Kate Rumsby and Amy Rutland. Chief Executive Mairead McCormick

Contents

Your shout 4-5
News 6-7

No ordinary boy 8-9
Helping you to help us 10
David’s life-saving
lung check 11
Sky’s the limit for Skyla 12-13
Proud to be 8
improving lives 14

Let’s get you home 15-19
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Home is where
the heart is 20-21
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Simulating success 22-23
Back to school 24-25
Are you ready to care? 26
Let your voice be heard 27
Sign up to be a member
of KCHFT 28
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Your guide 29

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