The Group
The Regional Acquired Brain Injury Implementation Group (RABIIG) was established in June 2010 to make improvements to health and social care services provided to users and carers of brain injury services. It is jointly managed by the Health and Social Care Board and Public Health Agency and has membership from the five Health and Social Care Trusts, statutory bodies, voluntary organisations, service users, parents and carers. It is chaired by Kevin Keenan, Assistant Director of Social Services, Older People and Adults, Health and Social Care Board.
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety’s Acquired Brain Injury Action Plan 2009/10 - 2010/11 builds on the Review of Services for People with Acquired Traumatic Brain Injury in Northern Ireland (September 2008).
The purpose of producing this Action Plan on Acquired Brain Injury was to provide clear time-bounded targets to drive service improvement and to co-ordinate action in order to improve outcomes for patients, their families and carers.
The actions fall into one of four themes:
 | Service Redesign
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| Quality Improvement and Performance Management
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| Improved Support for Individuals, Carers and Families
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| Effective Engagement and Partnership Working |
RABIIG carried out its work over the last two years through five different work-streams as follows:
| Performance Management and Service Improvement Workstream – chaired by Rodney Morton, HSCB – producing the Brain Injury Service Standards and Quality Indicators
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| Inpatient Workstream – chaired by Dr John McCann, BHSCT – producing the Inpatient Care Pathway
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| Children’s Services Workstream – chaired by Mr Kieran McShane, HSCB – producing the Children and Young People’s Care Pathway
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| Information Workstream – chaired by Ms Angela Thomphson, Reconnect – producing the Brain Injury Support in NI Information Pack
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| Adult Community Workstream – chaired by Mr Garry Hyde, WHSCT – producing the Adult Community Care Pathway |
New RABIIG Work-streams have recently been established:
- Review of the accommodation needs of adult clients with ABI, locally and for those currently residing outside NI.
- Education and Training – scope out regional education and training needs, identifying the training needs of staff working at different levels in ABI services across inpatient, community and children’s services.
- Benchmarking of ABI services in NI – focusing upon service profile, audit framework and comparative analysis.
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