Headway UK Preferred Provider

Headway UK Preferred Provider

Headway the UK’s largest brain injury charity have accredited The Marbrook Centre’s specialist brain injury rehabilitation service as one of their Approved Providers. The Centre’s active rehabilitation service was assessed against Headway’s best practice to ensure...
CQC ‘GOOD’ News

CQC ‘GOOD’ News

What did the CQC Inspectors find when they inspected us in March and April this year? ‘Throughout the time the inspection team was at The Marbrook Centre we saw that staff and people living / staying at the home interacted well with each other and had warm, caring...
Our 3 C’s

Our 3 C’s

Trying to sum up our values into just 3 words is really difficult task. How do you encapsulate the collective talents, skills and knowledge which our nursing and therapy bring together to create The Marbrook Centres care ethos? Marbrook maybe a fabulous bespoke new...
Music power

Music power

Music can have the power to positively influence our lives; lifting our moods, changing a group dynamic and offering our therapists a really interesting way to engage each individual in their rehabilitation programme. All of these I have been privileged to witness...
Our 3 C’s

Learning from the real experts

We have always strived to make the care and rehabilitation services offered here as outcome focused as possible. But what does that really mean? For us it’s a mix of the tangible benefits each person gains from their rehab here; their increased ability to achieve...
An outsider’s perspective

An outsider’s perspective

Winning awards is obviously lovely, but the judges’ comments on our most recent award gave us an outsider’s perspective to what ‘team Marbrook’ feels like from a carer or family members view. This all started with us winning the Carers Trust ‘Carer Friendly Employer...

C4 Dispatches report – Our response

  Dear Team Marbrook Firstly, if you have this email is aimed at you and not just direct care staff so please read carefully. This random comment will make sense as you read on. Having watched ‘BUPA Care Homes Undercover’ on Dispatches (Channel 4) on Monday...

Awards, Awards, Awards?

‘Congratulation Finalist’ letters have been arriving in the post like the legend of buses, nothing for the year to date, then three all at once. So far we shortlisted for: Pride in Our Carers award – Carer Friendly Employer of the Year, award ceremony 13 June All...

1st Anniversary Charity Bike Ride

On the 3rd of May, The Marbrook Centre is celebrating its first year anniversary. To mark this occasion we want to do something which brings together the whole of ‘team Marbrook’. An inclusive event for patients and residents either here, or who have been discharged...

Marbrook Growing a therapy team

Having been open for nearly 10 months now, it’s easy to take for granted the amazing resource we have built here at The Marbrook Centre, in terms of the physical building and our therapy team. These reflections crystallised in a visit by Matt Hampson and members of...