Community Rehabilitation Standards published by the CRA

The Community Rehabilitation Alliance has published a set of best practice standards, which give recommendations to guide the development, delivery and monitoring of high-quality patient-centred rehabilitation.

These multi-condition, multi-professional community rehabilitation best practice standards provide a base from which community rehabilitation services can deliver high-quality evidence-based rehabilitation to patients and populations. They seek to decrease both local and national variation currently occurring in community rehabilitation.

The standards apply to adult community rehabilitation services and aim to improve individual and population-based health and well-being. They aim to :

• lead to clearer pathways for people with an impairment or disability
• produce clear guidance on supported self-management and goal setting
• drive cost-savings by facilitating early supported discharge from hospitals and preventing avoidable re-admission.
• ensure care delivery within people’s own homes and communities wherever possible.
  

The standards were compiled by an expert panel from the Community Rehabilitation Alliance, and they set our seven recommendations. Each recommendation outlines what is expected of those working towards the delivery of rehabilitation services.

You can download a full version of the standards here or a summary version here. If you would like more information about how the audit tools and an interactive breakdown of the recommendations please see https://www.csp.org.uk/professional-clinical/improvement-innovation/community-rehabilitation-recovery/important-reading/standards

UKABIF are proud to endorse the standards and are an active member of the Community Rehabilitation Alliance.