Articles

Reviewing and Redesigning ABI Care Pathways: Learning From Outcomes and Incidents

ABI care pathways must evolve in response to outcomes, incidents and lived experience. This article explains how providers can review and redesign ABI pathways using evidence, governance and commissioning insight.

Continuity of Care in ABI Services: Preventing Breakdown Across Pathways

Breakdowns in continuity are a leading cause of crisis, safeguarding incidents and placement failure in ABI services. This article explains how providers can maintain continuity across complex pathways, with operational...

Managing Complexity in ABI Pathways: Cognition, Behaviour and Risk

ABI pathways often involve complex combinations of cognitive impairment, behavioural risk and fluctuating insight. This article explains how providers can manage complexity within ABI care pathways while maintaining safety, outcomes...

Commissioning ABI Services: What Good Care Pathways Look Like in Practice

Commissioning effective ABI services requires more than purchasing hours of support. This article explains what commissioners expect from high-quality ABI care pathways and how providers can evidence pathway integrity, outcomes...

Specialist vs Generic Provision: Choosing the Right ABI Service Model

Commissioners and providers must decide when specialist ABI provision is required and when generic services can meet need. This article explores how to make evidence-based decisions about ABI service models,...

Integrated Health and Social Care Pathways for People With Acquired Brain Injury

People with acquired brain injury often move between health-led and social care-led services, creating risk when pathways are poorly integrated. This article explains how effective health and social care integration...

Community-Based ABI Support Models: Moving Beyond Residential Care

Community-based ABI support models focus on independence, identity and participation rather than containment. This article explores how providers can deliver effective community ABI services, with operational examples and commissioner expectations.

Step-Down and Transitional Pathways in Acquired Brain Injury Services

Step-down pathways are critical points of risk and opportunity in ABI services. This article explains how providers can design and deliver effective transitional support from neuro-rehabilitation into community settings, with...

Designing ABI Care Pathways: Supporting Recovery, Adaptation and Long-Term Outcomes

Effective ABI care pathways must support recovery where possible and adaptation where it is not. This article explains how providers can design ABI pathways that balance rehabilitation, risk and long-term...

Understanding ABI Service Models: From Neuro-Rehabilitation to Long-Term Community Support

Acquired brain injury services span short-term neuro-rehabilitation and long-term community support, yet service models are often poorly understood. This article explains the main ABI service models in use across England...