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The Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre (West 8)

                     

This page is for patients and their families/carers who are referred to the WSCIRC. If you are a health care professional wanting to refer a patient, please use the following link National Spinal Cord Injury Database.

 

 

 

The Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre (WSCIRC) is based at the University Hospital Llandough (UHL). It is the only centre located in Wales for Spinal cord injury rehabilitation, and you may still hear it referred to as Rookwood (where it was previously located).

 

 

 

The centre offers a multidisciplinary team approach to rehabilitation and provides life-long review and care for people with a spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation is a process of teaching, enabling and supporting individuals (and their families) to maximise independence and become experts in their own condition and its management.  

Our broad philosophy is to work with individuals to help them: 

  • Maximise their neurological recovery and their adjustment to their injury. 
  • Learn about their injury and its management through formal and informal education. 
  • Achieve the safest possible level of physical independence. 
  • Develop self-management skills i.e. engaging in joint responsibility for progression in all aspects of rehabilitation and planning discharge home.   
  • Participate meaningfully and optimally in their home, community & social lives. 

 

 

 

 

The WSCIRC is part of a network of specialist Spinal cord injury centres across UK and Ireland. We cover South, West and part of Mid Wales with North Wales being covered by Oswestry. 

For more information about other centres please click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location 

                                                                                                      

Welsh Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centre

University Hospital Llandough

Penlan Road

Penarth

CF64 2XX

Hospital Switchboard: 02920711711

WSCIRC Admin Team: 02921827624

WSCIRC Ward west 8 reception: 02921827690

 

 

 

 

There is a multi-storey carpark opposite the entrance to the WSICRC outpatient’s department which includes disabled parking.

For more information on University Hospital Llandough please use the attached link University Hospital Llandough - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

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