Community Therapy (dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk)
The community therapy team (for Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch) helps people with long term conditions, injuries or illness to live well for longer.
We are a team of specialist Community Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Rehabilitation Assistants, with expert knowledge and skills in falls, trauma and orthopaedic (FTO) health conditions, and all neurological and long term health conditions. The team enables and empowers patients to maximise their independence within home and community based settings, and to work towards agreed patient orientated goals. The aim of the team is to provide evidenced based and high quality community-based rehabilitation and therapy.
We accept patients that are:
- registered with a Bournemouth, Poole or Christchurch GP
- 18 years of age or over
- medically-stable and safe to be in the community (we are not an urgent, rapid response service)
- unable to attend outpatients and have community therapy goals