In-patient therapy services are provided at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and Clifton Hospital. All our qualified therapists are registered with the Health Care Professions Council, ensuring a consistent professional standard of training, professional skills and behaviour, and they are supported by a team of therapy assistants.
Therapists are involved in a variety of multi-disciplinary teams throughout the acute and rehabilitation settings, aiming to support patients during their hospital stay. Indication for a therapy referral may be related to a change in functional status from pre-admission level for a variety of reasons including mobility, transfers, management of their activities of daily living, cognition and mood. Through utilisation of our specialist skills, the therapy team complete rehabilitation interventions, working towards achieving patient-centred goals. We also provide moving and handling recommendations for ward staff and to help the discharge services determine support needs to facilitate discharge. Alongside this, we provide a specialist respiratory on-call physiotherapy service during both day and nighttime hours for urgent chest physiotherapy intervention.
Summaries of the different specialities within therapy services may be accessed via the drop down box below, along with specific contact numbers for some specialist departments.
If you wish to speak with a member of our team, please contact the hospital therapy department: 01253 953511 or 01253 955172.
If you have been discharged from hospital more than 2 weeks ago, and feel you require further therapy support please contact your GP practice to access community therapy services.
- Acute Medicine
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardiothoracic
- Clifton Hospital
- Care of the Older Person
- ITU and Surgery
- ITT - ED
- MECU
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
- Stroke
