About Rehab Without Walls
Neil Brooks and Cathy Johnson, Directors of Rehab Without Walls, are case management pioneers. For over 20 years they have actively promoted case management as the best way to provide rehabilitation and manage disability following brain injury, in both the NHS and the independent sector. Their experience of residential rehabilitation led them to found Rehab Without Walls in 1995.
As Neil and Cathy saw it, people with brain injury would prefer to be treated in their own homes and usually they find it easier to cope by learning to do things at home, rather than in a residential unit many miles away.
Case Management
Rehab Without Walls takes a "whatever it takes" approach and our case management team prides itself on trying to find solutions to problems that may have been seen as insurmountable by other professionals. This is truly a client centred approach, building the service around the individual.
Our 22 case managers (as far apart as Northumberland, Kent, Bristol and Colchester) currently provide input to over 200 clients across the UK, using local services and therapists to provide a bespoke service for each client.
Each case manager brings unique professional experience, such as social work, occupational therapy, nursing and special educational needs. While our case managers have a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience, we know that we do not know everything, and we have built up an extensive network of contacts and advisers; if we don't know ourselves we can always find someone who does!
Commitment to Quality
We are committed to quality, and are proud to be the first service in the world to be awarded a 3 year accreditation by the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for three separate programmes (Medical Rehabilitation Case Management for Adults; Brain Injury Case Management for Adults; and Brain Injury Case Management for Children and Adolescents) - Read more. In addition to our CARF accreditation, we have received the highest "3 star - Excellent" rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
CV for Dr Neil BrooksOur Directors
Dr Neil Brooks is a consultant psychologist. Neil has extensive academic, clinical, managerial and research experience in brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and chronic pain, and is renowned across the world for his expertise.
Ms Cathy Johnson is a brain injury case manager, who moved from working as a social worker, to developing residential and day care rehabilitation services for people with brain injury. Cathy has many years of clinical, managerial, and community experience in brain injury, spinal injury, mental health, and terminal illness.
