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020 3311 1948

Visitor Information

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Our specialist neurological rehabilitation service offers assessments, recommendations and goal orientated rehabilitation for people who experience difficulties managing life as a result of a neurological illness or injury. The service offers intensive, tailored rehabilitation and management programmes. 

We are working in partnership with Central London Community Healthcare and Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Trust to provide this service to patients from North West London. 

Our integrated service provides inpatient services for up to 15 patients across the NWL sector with an additional four virtual beds within the tri-borough community neuro rehabilitation service.
(Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea).

Conditions and treatments

Our service offers high-intensity, goal-orientated neurological rehabilitation and inpatient care for people with new and chronic progressive neurological conditions and life-changing illnesses or injuries, including:

  • Stroke
  • Hypoxic brain injury
  • Brain tumours
  • Traumatic brain injury (with and without polytrauma)
  • Multiple sclerosis and other progressive neurological conditions
  • Spinal cord injury (incomplete)
  • Inflammatory neurology (central and peripheral)

Clinics

Our neurological rehabilitation service is based at Charing Cross Hospital. Following discharge from inpatient care, patients may receive treatment at any number of locations in the community, including in their own homes.

Follow-up appointments may be arranged in the rehabilitation clinic at Charing Cross Hospital and will be discussed with patients and families before discharge. 

Address

Charing Cross neurological rehabilitation unit
Nine south ward
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London W6 8RF

Contact

Phone: 020 3311 1948

Opening hours

Visiting hours are from 15.00 to 20.00 each day. Family members, friends and carers wishing to visit a patient at our neurological rehabilitation unit should consult our ward information section for more information.

Meet the team

Our neurological rehabilitation multidisciplinary team (MDT) includes specialists with clinical expertise in a number of areas, including rehabilitation medicine, neurology, specialist rehabilitation nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics, clinical psychology, and social work.

Dr Ajoy Nair, consultant in rehabilitation medicine, clinical lead for trauma rehabilitation Imperial and Hillingdon.

Dr Meena Nayar, consultant in rehabilitation medicine, clinical lead for Charing Cross Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (CNRU) and specialist neuro rehabilitation outreach service (SNROS)

Dr Victoria Singh-Curry, consultant neurologist

Dr Emily Handyside, clinical neuropsychologist

Davina Richardson, clinical service lead therapist, neurosciences.

Diane Benefer, lead nurse, stroke and neurorehabilitation

Kirsty Lenthall, clinical lead therapist, Charing Cross neurological rehabilitation unit

Holly Corlett, clinical psychologist, Charing Cross neurological rehabilitation unit

Jonathan Hayton, clinical nurse specialist, neurological rehabilitation

Elizabeth John, ward manager, Charing Cross neurological rehabilitation unit

Thomas Kavil, rehabilitation administrator

Anna Kozak,  rehabilitation administrator

Patient information

Damage to your nervous system can lead to a range of difficulties that make it difficult for you to do the things that you need and want to do. A specialist rehabilitation team work with patients using a goal-orientated approach, to help you improve your ability to do the things that have become difficult. Rehabilitation and recovery after damage to the brain and nervous system takes time, and continues long after you have left hospital. Gradually, your ability and confidence in doing the things that are important to you will increase. Neurological rehabilitation is a process that leads to you taking ever more control of your life. This involves using the skills and techniques that you have learned to manage your own condition as part of everyday life.

Preparing to come to the specialist neurological rehabilitation unit

Our welcome leaflet explains everything you need to know before you come to the unit. Please be sure you bring the following items with you:

  • Comfortable, loose-fitting trousers or shorts
  • Loose-fitting tops or t-shirts
  • Comfortable shoes or trainers
  • Toiletries — all of the items you would normally use at home
  • A warm item of clothing to wear outdoors
  • Your wheelchair, if you have one
  • Any aids or equipment you regularly use already e.g. walking frames/sticks or any splints
  • Contact details for anyone involved in your care at home e.g. GP, district nurse and therapists

You are welcome to see visitors while you are in hospital. Please see our ward page for more information. 

Friends of Charing Cross Neurological Rehabilitation Unit

If you would like to donate to Friends of CNRU to support our work, please visit Imperial Health Charity’s website and enter ‘Friends of CNRU’ when you make your donation.

Refer to this service

Our service does not accept emergency referrals as we offer rehabilitation to medically stable non-emergency patients. 

This service is appropriate for adults with complex neurological rehabilitation needs that cannot be managed through standard community and social care programmes. Patients should be ready and willing to embark on an intensive, goal-orientated rehabilitation plan before referral.

All referrals are screened within 48 hours and assessed by the specialist MDT led by the rehabilitative medicine consultant within seven days.  

GPs who wish to refer patients to our service should call our data and administrative coordinators Thomas Kavil and Anna Kozak to discuss their patients. 

Providers may refer patients to this service via the Badgernet online referral system, which is available at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Northwick Park, Central Middlesex, Ealing and Chelsea and Westminster hospitals. Your local specialist neurological therapy staff will assist you with accessing the system and obtaining a login and password. 

If you do not have access to Badgernet, please contact our data and administrative coordinators Thomas Kavil and Anna Kozak to discuss your referral. You may then download our referral form and submit it via email. 

Phone: 020 3311 1950