Physiotherapy Services
Outpatient Physiotherapy Services
Our Outpatient Physiotherapy Department is located at Jacketts Field in Abbots Langley. Their contact number is 01923 378 130
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Inpatient Therapy Services
About the Service / Department
The physiotherapy inpatient team provides assessment and treatment to those relevant patients throughout the hospital. The service aims to rehabilitate and maximise the recovery of patients whose ability to mobilise and function has deteriorated. This includes the treatment of patients with respiratory, neurological and orthopaedics problems.
Location
The inpatient Physiotherapy department is located in H block next to the renal unit at Watford General Hospital.
Service / Department specialties
The physiotherapy Inpatient service is available in the following specialities:
- Stroke
- Orthopaedics – Trauma & Elective
- Medical wards (including short stay)
- Surgical wards
- Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) & High Dependency Unit (HDU) & Cardiac Care Unit (CCU)
- Care of the Elderly
- Accident and Emergency (A&E) (admission prevention) & Acute Admissions Unit (AAU)
The Outpatient Service specialises in spinal and peripheral musculoskeletal conditions and women's health issues.
Referrals / Appointments
The service is provided to patients that are admitted to the hospital. Referrals will be made by staff on the wards i.e. doctors and nurses.
GPs refer in through the 'Direct Open Access Service' using the appropriate referral form.
Consultants refer in completing the yellow referral card
Service / Department contact details
The contact number for Inpatient Therapy is 01923 217271.
Private physiotherapy
Our Private physiotherapy is based is situated between Watford, Hemel Hempstead and St Albans at the West Hertfordshire Therapy Unit in Abbots Langley.
Our experienced team of expert physiotherapists, each with speciality areas of expertise, offer assessments and treatments for a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries, women’s health and much more to help get you back to normal activities as soon as possible.
Our private physiotherapy accepts self-referral either by patients who are self-funding or who have authorisation from their health insurance company.
We offer a 45 minute initial assessment which allows time to assess your condition thoroughly and plan your treatment accordingly. This can be face to face or virtually via video call or telephone assessments. We also offer six group sessions of pilates.
To find out more or to speak to a member of the team, please call 07776 964161.
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