WEST MIDLANDS POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE
REHABILITATION MEDICINE
Training Programme
West Midlands
Anticipated Duration
of Programme
4 years
Trust:
Locations of Training
Posts
Standard Rotation
South Birmingham Community Trust
University Hospital of North Staffordshire
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwick NHS Trust
NHS South Birmingham
University Hospital North Staffordshire
University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire
Royal Leamington Spa Hospital
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals
Modular programme starting in host units, as per specialty’s curriculum
NHS South Birmingham
NHS South Birmingham is the host trust for both Moseley Hall Hospital (MHH) and the regional unit at
the Oak Tree Lane Centre (OTLC). MHH provide opportunity to acquire experience in both in-patient
neurological rehabilitation facility as well as community based regional rehabilitation service for adults
with acquired brain injury within the purpose-built Moor Green Unit. The OTLC in Selly Oak gives
opportunity for trainees to be exposed to out-patient management of people with physical disabilities;
access to various clinics including: amputee and prosthetics rehabilitation, orthotics, wheelchairs, gait
and functional electrical stimulation. OTLC also run weekly specialist clinics for young adults, MS, spinal
injuries, intrathecal baclofen and spasticity. Musculoskeletal rehabilitation is provided at the nearby
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. There is a regional Disability Information Service within the OTLC and
trainees at all levels of training benefit from the wide exposure that this rotation richly provides. There
are seven consultants in RM, and 1- 2 other trainees in rotation.
University Hospital of North Staffordshire
University Hospital of North Staffordshire is affiliated to the Haywood Hospital, Stoke on Trent which
provides the following services for people with physical disability: rheumatologic /musculoskeletal
rehabilitation (inpatient ward and outpatients), neurological rehabilitation (inpatient ward and
outpatients), limb fitting services and wheelchair services. Haywood Hospital is European lead for
training clinicians in the management of spasticity using Botulinum Toxin injection and provide trainees
opportunity to experience how intermediate care and older people services work. There is also specialist
physiotherapy, occupational therapy, onsite bone densitometry and imaging, podiatry, out-reach clinics
for ENT, pharmacy and walk-in-centre. Trainees benefit enormously from the strong link with the
University Hospital and the two consultants and Associate Specialists have a great deal of research and
teaching experience. There is often a second trainee in rotation.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) through its Neurosciences Department has
strong affiliation with the Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital (RLSRH). Specialist neurological
rehabilitation service in the Coventry and Warwickshire area is provided across these two sites
specialising in the neurological rehabilitation of people who have suffered brain injury resulting from
strokes, serious trauma or have long-term progressive conditions such as MS. The RLSRH is nationally
renowned for management of patients in state of disordered consciousness (Vegetative and Minimally
Conscious). There is a busy Hitchman Day Unit which treats up to 20-30 patients per day and within the
grounds of the hospital, is the Community Neuro-Rehabilitation team, a multidisciplinary service
providing on-going assessment, therapy and support to persons with MS. There is also the opportunity
for trainees to have experience at the Coventry Community Neurological Rehabilitation treating people
with acquired brain and spinal cord injuries. UHCW is the principal teaching hospital for Warwick
Medical School with which it works in close partnership to develop innovative medical education
programmes and clinical research. There is an active weekly Neurology/ Stroke CME meetings that gives
trainees the opportunity to present their audits and research topics. There is a very strong link with
neurosurgeons, neurologists, neurophysiologists and neuroradiologists. There are three consultants in
RM (plus one vacant post), one Associate Specialist, and one Staff Grade doctor at the RLSRH site as well
as one CMT trainee at the UHCW site. Trainees have huge opportunity to be involved in teaching medical
students.