Services to Patients
The support that will be provided can include:
The service also serves to assist the NHS within the hospital centre by:
The service also serves to assist the NHS within the hospital centre by:
- Emergency financial support.
- Emotional support of the patient and their families
- Help with benefits applications and appeals.
- Advice regarding rehousing.
- Liaison with employers regarding return to work.
- Liaison with NHS staff to improve communication.
- Legal support with a view to obtaining privately funded rehabilitation services.
The service also serves to assist the NHS within the hospital centre by:
The service also serves to assist the NHS within the hospital centre by:
The service also serves to assist the NHS within the hospital centre by:
- Improving the patient experience.
- Assisting with issues such as benefits and rehousing that could otherwise cause a delay in discharge.
- Recovering up to £50,000 in NHS charges in each case from the person that caused the accident.
- Reducing the burden on the NHS by assisting the patient to get access to private rehab.
Our trustees
Adrian Denson
Adrian Denson
Adrian Denson
Adrian is the Chief Legal Officer at Fletchers Solicitors. With over 20 years of experience working in the law he is a leading catastrophic injury solicitor who has handled some of the biggest Personal Injury cases in the country. He has been privileged to work on cases of the highest value, severity and complexity helping shape peopl
Adrian is the Chief Legal Officer at Fletchers Solicitors. With over 20 years of experience working in the law he is a leading catastrophic injury solicitor who has handled some of the biggest Personal Injury cases in the country. He has been privileged to work on cases of the highest value, severity and complexity helping shape people’s lives following a serious injury. In his own words “The most incredible part of this work is always the way that clients and their families take you into their lives and into their trust at a time when they are at their most vulnerable, their lowest ebb. Looking to you and trusting you to help them back to the best place they can get to, a place where there is life after injury. That is such a humbling experience.”
Andy Lilley
Adrian Denson
Adrian Denson
Andy is a Partner at JMW Solicitors and the joint Head of the Personal Injury Team. He specialises in catastrophic injury work and has recovered many tens of millions of pounds for the victims of serious injury. He is recognised as a Leading individual in the Legal 500 and ranked in the Chambers Guide. Andrew is committed to fighting for
Andy is a Partner at JMW Solicitors and the joint Head of the Personal Injury Team. He specialises in catastrophic injury work and has recovered many tens of millions of pounds for the victims of serious injury. He is recognised as a Leading individual in the Legal 500 and ranked in the Chambers Guide. Andrew is committed to fighting for his client to get the earliest possible rehab to allow them to leave as full and independent a life as possible. Andrew has been a trustee of Headway Central Lancashire for several years and has recently been appointed a Director to the charity.
Ann Pimm
Dr Penny Trayner
Dr Penny Trayner
Ann Pimm is the proud owner and Clinical Director of Summerseat Physiotherapy, one of the leading specialist complex injury clinics in the North West. Established in 2014, Ann and her team of specialist physiotherapists treat adults and children with neurological conditions.
Having built up extensive knowledge of the physiotherapy needs of
Ann Pimm is the proud owner and Clinical Director of Summerseat Physiotherapy, one of the leading specialist complex injury clinics in the North West. Established in 2014, Ann and her team of specialist physiotherapists treat adults and children with neurological conditions.
Having built up extensive knowledge of the physiotherapy needs of people with brain and complex injury, Ann sees her job as facilitating the body to relearn or learn for the first time how to be the most functional it can be. She says, “Seeing someone reach or surpass their goals is fabulous - it is the most rewarding work, and I am still passionate about it after doing it for 35 years!”
Over the years Ann has built up a strong network, bringing together other service providers in Neurological Rehabilitation both nationally and locally. She has been honoured to speak at conferences internationally but loves nothing more than standing in front of a class of trainee physiotherapists, helping to inspire future generations.
A driving force for good, Ann also organises Bury’s annual Accessible Festival and is a founding committee member for Headway charity in Bury.
Dr Penny Trayner
Dr Penny Trayner
Dr Penny Trayner
Dr Penny Trayner is a Chartered Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist specialising in community-based rehabilitation for children and young people with acquired brain injury. Alongside her clinical practice which she established in 2009, Dr Trayner is also a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and is the Acad
Dr Penny Trayner is a Chartered Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist specialising in community-based rehabilitation for children and young people with acquired brain injury. Alongside her clinical practice which she established in 2009, Dr Trayner is also a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and is the Academic Director of the University of Liverpool Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. She has authored articles in leading international journals and academic texts and is an invited speaker at national and international conferences.
Dr Trayner is also the creator of Goal Manager®, an award-winning cloud-based software application designed to facilitate effective goal setting and automate the tracking of progress and outcomes in rehabilitation. When she is not being a neuropsychologist, Dr Trayner is also a professional DJ and has used these skills to co-design a first-of-its-kind DJing for rehabilitation programme as a vehicle for helping children and adults recover from catastrophic injuries.
