Prosthetics service
The regional prosthetic service provides assessment, prescriptions, manufacture, rehabilitation, care and maintenance of upper and lower limb prostheses (artificial limbs). The multidisciplinary team includes a consultant, specialist nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, rehabilitation assistant, prosthetist, psychological therapist and technicians.
All services are provided within one clinical setting. Care and maintenance of the prostheses is also supplied. The team also sees pre-amputation consultations and provides support to those who maybe unable to tolerate a prosthesis. We follow the NASDAB guidelines.
Watch Acting Lead Physiotherapist, Tracy, give an introduction to the service below:
Patient information
Contact our service in Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Brentwood
Prosthetic service
Mayflower Community Hospital
Blunts Wall Road
Billericay
CM12 9SA
Tel: main reception 0300 300 1849
Tel: appointments 0300 300 1846
Opening times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am- 4.30pm
Referrals
Please email prostheticreferrals@nelft.nhs.uk. Referrals are accepted from consultants, senior registrars, senior house officers or band 6 and above clinicians.