Neuro-Rehabilitation Outpatients Department – Patient, carer and relative information leaflet

This leaflet will provide you with information that you may find useful about the Neurorehabilitation Outpatients Department at Walkergate Park.

We share clean air

These resources will tell you about the benefits of giving up smoking, key facts about smoking, what smokefree means for patients, carers, staff and visitors, electronic cigarettes and support you can get to stop smoking.

What does engagement and observation mean to me?

A leaflet about engagement and observation which is used by your care team to help us keep you and others safe and well. Everybody on an inpatient ward is nursed on one of four levels of observation.

Winter Wellness

If you are struggling with your mental wellbeing, you should seek help as soon as you can. There are a number of specialist services that provide treatment, including counselling and other talking therapy services. This booklet and poster signposts to sources help of support. For printed copies of the leaflets and poster email [email protected]

Welcome Guide – Older people’s and dementia care inpatient services

This pack provides you with information that you will find useful during your stay. It tells you about the staff, the ward, the treatments and therapies available to you. Covers Akenside, Castleside, Cleadon, Hauxley, Marsden, Mowbray, Oakwood, Roker, Ruskin and Woodhorn

What happens next

Information leaflet for patients on what happens next. The team and patient have together agreed will work with the each other to help manage and resolve their mental health crisis. Together they will do this by involving the patient and their family, friends, carers (with patients consent) in working out what needs to happen next.

What is dementia?

This link takes you to the Alzheimer's Society and explains what dementia is, including the causes and symptoms, and how it is diagnosed and treated. It also looks at the different types of dementia.