Head injury
See also Brain Disorders/Injury
Children's Head Injury Trust
C/o Neurosurgery
The Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE
Tel: 01865 224786
Fax: 01865 224 786
E-mail: execdir@chit.demon.co.uk
Web address: www.glaxocentre.merseyside.org/CHIT.html
Runs an advice line, provides informative literature and a newsletter. Sets up local family support groups and an information database to relieve the disabilities of children with head injuries.
Children's Trust
Tadworth Court, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5RU
Tel: 01737 357171
Fax: 01737 373848
E-mail: c-trust@netcomuk.co.uk
Web address: www.childrens-trust.org.uk
Provides specialist care, rehabilitation and education for children with profound difficulties, offering short-term, transitional, respite and palliative nursing, therapy and medical care.
Headway National Head Injuries Association Ltd
4 King Edward Court, King Edward Street, Nottingham NG1 1EW
Tel: 0115 924 0800
Fax: 0115 958 4446
E-mail: enquiries@headway.org.uk
Web address: www.headway.org.uk
Supports self-help groups; organises local, regional and national conferences; provides information and booklets on patients' problems and help for families; and runs residential and assessment centres.