Welsh Neuropsychiatry Service
The Welsh Neuropsychiatry Service at Hafan y Coed, University Hospital, Llandough, consists of:
- In-patient services – eleven beds
- Day Assessment services
- Community Services – 100 plus
- Out-patients including Complex Epilepsy Clinic
The client group, aged between seventeen and sixty-five years of age, consists of people with acquired brain damage with associated psychiatric disorders with or without challenging behaviours. The service is available to the population of Wales.
Staffing
The unit contains the following staff:
- Specialist nurses - both ward, day hospital and community based
- Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Senior Psychiatric Social Worker
- Physiotherapist
Referrals
Sources of referrals to the multi-disciplinary team are:
- General Practitioners
- Rookwood Hospital
- General Hospitals
- Mental Health Services – both hospital & community
- Social Services
- Forensic Services
- Learning Difficulties Services – both hospital & community
- Neurosciences Directorates, e.g. University Hospital of Wales
- Epilepsy Services
- Legal Profession, e.g. solicitors acting for RTA victims etc.
- HM Prisons
- Employment Service
Contact
Gwen Phillips (Assistant Clinical Director)
Welsh Neuropsychiatry Service, Hafan y Coed, University Hospital, Llandough CF64 2XX
Tel: 029 21 824 615
Fax: 029 21 824 607
E-mail:
Kelly.Davenport@wales.nhs.uk
Layla.Collins@wales.nhs.uk
