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Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre

The Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre provides a high quality intensive post-acute inpatient rehabilitation service for adults and adolescents (16-18 years) with traumatic or acquired brain injury.

Services Offered

  • Brain Injury and Neurodisability

About Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre

We provide comprehensive assessment, rehabilitation, therapy and community integration programme for people with physical and cognitive impairment and people with challenging behaviour following brain injury. We also provide SMART (Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique) assessment for people who are in a minimally conscious state.

The centre has two full-time NHS medical consultants; Dr Angus Graham, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, and Dr John Holloway, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, giving us the unique combination of a consultant specialising in the physical aspects of rehabilitation and a consultant specialising in the cognitive, emotional and behavioural side of brain injury.

Working in partnership with North Bristol NHS Trust, the centre has excellent access to all the facilities, expertise and resources of the local Frenchay Teaching Hospital and regional Neuroscience Directorate.

The modern centre is situated within the grounds of Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and enjoys pleasant views of the wooded nature reserve. We aim to create an environment that is welcoming, comfortable, supportive and safe and facilitates a positive attitude to recovery and maximises the quality of life and independence.

Key Features

  • All single rooms
  • Pet therapy
  • Gym
  • Landscaped gardens
  • Patio
  • Hydrotherapy pool
  • Flat screen tv lounge
  • 4 bedroomed transitional living house
  • Therapy Suite

Key Staff

Dr John Holloway, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist/Medical Director

Dr Holloway has been Medical Director of the Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre since 2001. He continued to be the Neuroscience Rehabilitation Lead for North Bristol NHS Trust.

Inspections

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are responsible for inspecting Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre.

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What People Say


  • Thank you so much for the wonderful care you have given X and for all the hard work you have done in preparing her for her future life. We never imagined in our wildest dreams that she would be able to achieve what she already has, this has been due to your professional care. Thank you also for the love and care that has been shown to her. We feel extremely fortunate for X to have had the benefit of BIRU and offer to you our most grateful thanks.


  • Just to say a huge thank you to all of you for looking after my husband so well. I realize how difficult this has been and you have all been brilliant! Thank you for your kindness to me in what has been a terrible time for the children and my myself. There was always someone caring at the end of the phone and that helped. Thank you again and know that you all made a big difference to my family.


  • It is obvious that your success as a unit is that you all work together as a team for the benefit of your patients. Nothing ever seems to be too much trouble and always done with a smile. You are a tribute to your profession. Your skill, kindness and good humour will be treasured and remembered for the rest of our lives and has forged a great bond with Frenchay Hospital and Huntercombe. Thank you everyone and God bless you all and may you continue to help and inspire many more people back to health and strength in the future.


  • We offer our heartfelt thanks for the quality of care which our daughter has been receiving at BIRU over the last few months. To see the changes develop in our daughter during her stay with you as you helped her rehabilitate into normal life has been incredible. On behalf of my wife, myself and the whole of our family would you please thank and congratulate every member of your magnificent team for the hours and hours of attention devoted to our daughter’s well being. The journey has been long and at times very painful for both our daughter and the family, but that suffering has been lessened by knowing that she has been in such a high quality and professional environment where the care is second to none. Thank you, thank you, thank you, one and all for giving us back our daughter to be able to take up her life again.


  • Thank you so very much all of you for giving us our lives back! For all your dedication, patience, kindness and encouragement. We will never forget you.


  • On behalf of my wife and myself I felt that I ought to write and express our heartfelt thanks for everything you and BIRU have done for me; quite simply it is the most remarkable facility I have ever stayed in. I remember that as I shuffled in the door on the first evening and gone to bed I woke the following morning with the sense that I was now in the most beautiful place. The atmosphere pervades the centre and does as much to heal your patients as the outstanding medical care and therapy. I feel as if I have been given my life back and confusions and alarms that so wracked my wife for most of the past year are now consigned to the past (hopefully!) In fact I now feel better than I have done for years.


  • I would like to take this opportunity of sincerely thanking you, Dr Graham and all the Team at the Rehab Unit for their good work over the six months I was with you. At no time did I hear a fierce word ( despite ample provocation! ) and I am sincerely grateful for the care, professionalism and humour which I unfailingly received. I am convinced that, assuming I make a full recovery ( which I confidently predict ) that my stay with you was crucial to this and I appreciate all that the Team has achieved.


  • Thank you doesn’t quit seem enough! At the start when I felt all was lost, you gave me hope. You gave me support, love and kindness when I needed it most. Through all your hard work, dedication and caring a huge part of X is back with me. Not only have you helped X you have helped us as a family. We’ve shared everything tears, laughter, celebrations, cups of tea, chicken pix and a new baby! It’s been an incredible journey and we’re ready now for the next stage. Thanks for everything, we will miss you loads.


  • Thank you so very very much for all your care and all the laughs you’ve given me and X over 8 months! You are all very special and we’ll never forget you.


  • Would like to express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of you for all the love, care, kindness and support you have given X and us this past year. It has been an incredible journey full of ups and downs and words cannot begin to express how truly thankful we are for the wonderful and amazing care you have given not only X but us too!

Contact Us

Enquiry Form

Centre Address

Frenchay Park Road
Bristol
BS16 1UU

Telephone. 0117 9562697

Fax. 0117 9569941

Email. frenchay@fshc.co.uk

Please complete the form opposite if you have a general enquiry or to arrange a visit.

How to find us