The Outpatient’s Unit was established as a new independent interdisciplinary department in 2007.  Receiving its clients from those persons discharged from in patient rehabilitation at various units, other referring hospitals and colleagues, insurance companies and word of mouth.

The department offers physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy services and offers active outpatient rehabilitation to all patients with a wide variety of diagnoses.

Each client’s out patient programme is adapted to cater for the funds the family has available. Ongoing involvement of carers and training of the carer is an essential part of the programme. In addition to contemporary therapies, appointments can be made for the SIT Lab (Seating Clinic), Functional Electrical Stimulation clinic, Alternative and Augmentative Communication clinic, Vital Stim Swallowing Therapy, Saeboflex use and upper or lower limb group therapy classes.

Outpatient rehabilitation is an essential component of the continuum of care. The purpose of outpatient therapy is to prevent complications; minimize impairments to achieve maximum functionality; estabilsh activity so that the individual maximises their re-integration and participation in life; improve the client and family's quality of life as well as to ease the burden of care.

Collaboration and effective communication within the team is essential. This team not only includes the patient and therapist, but also the family, carers and other health care providers.

" I've learnt so much from this experience with stroke, that I actually feel fortunate to have taken this journey. Thanks to this trauma, I have had the chance to witness first hand a few things about my brain that otherwise I would never have imagined to be true... I believe he (Einstein) got it right when he said, 'I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be'... I view the garden of my brain as a sacred patch of cosmic real estate that the universe has entrusted me to tend over the years of my lifetime." Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph..D.