Health and Adult Social Care
This team promotes effective communication and safe swallowing for children.
A local service providing assessment, treatment and advice to people with neurological impairment, including stoke, traumatic brain injury and Multiple Sclerosis. The objectives of the service are to improve physical well being, functional status and decrease the care needs of patients.
The centre also provides a specialist OT service, where they assess and prescribe attendant propelled and electrically operated indoor and outdoor wheelchairs. Referral is usually via GP's.
The Wheelchair and Special Seating Service provides wheelchairs to people who have a permanent disability and whose ability to walk is therefore permanently restricted.
The Audiology Specialist Clinic offers a specialist service for adults with learning disabilities when routine appointments would not suit their needs. Assessment of hearing is approached flexibly and they provide additional support to patients and support teams around hearing aid use. The clinic has close links with local Community Learning Disability Teams and some clinics are jointly held with a Speech and Language Therapists from the Brighton & Hove CLDT.
A group of local independent counsellors offering their services to the public. This site will enable you to find out about counselling, the kinds of therapy available and to locate a therapist in your area.
Sussex Cricket provides people of all ages with access to cricket . Their DIScoverABILITY programme provides opportunities for disabled people to lead an active lifestyle, develop skills for independent living and be the best cricketers they can be. Sussex Cricket also provide outreach coaching sessions for schools, colleges, day centres, care homes and charities, host clubs in leisure centres and sports facilities, as well as two competitive Sussex County Disability Squads.
Local eye hospital providing eye accident and emergency services and Ophthalmology.
The drop-in is staffed by a team of Volunteer Linguists who are able to support people with a language need to access services in Brighton & Hove.
A local charitable company for people with language needs working to relieve the poverty of individuals from black and minority ethnic communities.
A local central contact point for all Jewish organizations in Sussex. Their main objective is to protect and further the interests of the Sussex Jewish community, and the Council offers the opportunity to work as one and acts as the voice of the Sussex Jewish Community.
A local telephone service offering support and information to anyone experiencing mental health problems including stress, anxiety and depression. The service is also available to carers and healthcare professionals. You do not need an appointment. The service offers immediate support for people experiencing distress in a crisis.
Sussex MSK Partnership are a unique local, not for profit partnership bringing together primary care, specialist musculoskeletal care, community and mental health and well-being experts to deliver the whole musculoskeletal service in central Sussex.