Patient Resource Hub

On this page you will find links to number of resources, patient literature and links to helpful organisations.

Quick Reference Guide for Skin Problems

Click here to access the Quick Reference Guide for Skin Problems.

Discharge Information

For Parents

My Child is leaving Hospital. What now?

For Young Adults

For Adults

I'm leaving Hospital. What now?

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Support Groups

Adult Burn Support UK (ABUK)

Funded by Dan’s Fund, ABUK runs an online forum for parents, relatives as well as adult burn survivors to discuss burn-related topics. The forum is every Wednesday (7.30– 9.00pm) on the Adult Burn Support UK website.

Supporting Children With Burns

A website, designed with parents and carers, specifically to support families of children who have had a burn injury.

The Children's Burns Trust - Facebook Parent/Carer group

A private space where parents/carers of children with a burn/scald injury can communicate with other parents/carers of burn survivors. Search in Facebook for “Children's Burns Trust Parent/Carer Group” or
Facebook Group Number: 950123192115501.

Scar Treatments and Information

Scar information service - Scar Information Service | Smith & Nephew (smith-nephew.com)
Factual information on scars and their treatment with useful addresses for further information and services relating to scarring. Contact is only via their website.

Skin Camouflage Advice Service
Provided by the Changing face charity

Telephone: 0300 012 0276
Email: skincam@changingfaces.org.uk
https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/skin-camouflage

TalkHealth - http://talkhealthpartnership.com/talkscars/
A website aimed to make health support easily accessible to everyone, offering interactivity between health professionals, charities and fellow patients and their carers.

Wessex Lasercare
The Laser clinic has a long history of treating burn scars using lasers. It is situated at the end of the Plastics corridor on Level 3 of the hospital. Members of staff in the Scar Management Clinic will help to identify scars that would be suitable for laser treatment. The laser treatments would be performed at an outpatient appointment. To view the Salisbury Hospital Laser Clinic page please click here.

Other burns charities

Changing Faces - https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/
A national charity providing free help, support, information and skin camouflage advice for adults and children is relevant to a wide number of conditions that affect appearance.

The Squire Centre, 33-37 University Street, London, WC1E 6JN
Tel: 0345 450 0275
Email: info@changingfaces.org.uk

Children’s Burns Trust - https://www.cbtrust.org.uk/
A national charity dedicated to providing rehabilitation support for burned and scald injured children and their families.

2 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0DH
Tel: 020 7881 0902
Email: info@cbtrust.org.uk

Dan’s Fund for Burns - https://www.dansfundforburns.org/
A national charity providing practical support for Burn Survivors

c/o J Huston, 38 Mulberry House, Lynwood Village, Rise Road, Ascot, SL5 0FJ
Tel: 01344 622 977
Email: info@dansfundforburns.org

The Katie Piper Foundation - https://katiepiperfoundation.org.uk/
A national charity set up to help people with burns and scars to reconnect with their lives and their communities.

PO Box 334, 19-21 Crawford St, London, W1H 1PJ
Support Line: 07496 827266
Email: info@katiepiperfoundation.org.uk

Psychological Wellbeing

Clinical Psychology Department

Please click here more for details about our psychology department here at Salisbury District Hospital.

Outlook

A confidential psychological service for children and adults aimed at improving the day to day experience of living with a different appearance. Referral is accepted from a G.P. or any health care practitioner.

Admin Team, Gate 38, Level 3, Brunel Building, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Westbury-on-Trym,
Bristol. BS10 5NB
Tel: 0117 4144888
Email: Outlook&CHP@nbt.nhs.uk

Relate – https://www.relate.org.uk/

Provides relationship counselling and support for couples, families and children.

Relate, Premier House, Carolina Court, Lakeside, Doncaster DN4 5RA.
Email: relate.enquiries@relate.org.uk
Tel: 0300 100 1234

YoungMinds - https://youngminds.org.uk/

A national charity championing the wellbeing and mental health of young people. It provides advice, support, information for young people and parents.

Parents Helpline – 0808 802 5544

The Visible Difference Support Hub - https://visibledifferencesupporthub.com/

A website created by the Centre of Appearance Research. Provides easy access to free, evidence-based support for people whose lives are impacted by a visible difference of any sort. It also includes tools for raising awareness and understanding about visible difference.

Burns and Plastics Ward/Department at Salisbury

Click here to visit Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust's Plastic and Burns Department webpage.

Click here to visit Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust's Odstock Ward (Burns and Plastics) webpage.

Other Support Services

British Red Cross - https://www.redcross.org.uk/
Provides short-term loans (e.g. medical equipment, a transport service, Care in The Home package) after people have had a hospital stay, as well as therapeutic care.

44 Moorfields, London. EC2Y 9AL
Tel: 0344 871 1111
email: contactus@redcross.org.uk

Area Offices:
Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire.
Tel: 01235 552 665
email: ilcrsouthciadmin@redcross.org.uk

Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Isle of Wight
Tel: 01622 690 011
email: ilcr_southeastadmin@redcross.org.uk

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