ABICCUS - Acquired Brain Injury Children's Community Service

ABICCUS is the service that monitors and manages a child or young person with an acquired brain injury condition once they return home.

If a child or young person is admitted to hospital with an acquired brain injury, ABICCUS is the service that monitors and manages their condition once they return home. ABICCUS may also work with a child or young person after a period of rehabilitation in a unit such as the Children's Head Injury Service (CHIS) at Chailey Heritage. The service aims to co-ordinate care from the range of professionals involved in supporting individual children and maintain it as required while they are in education. Referrals are usually made by the Community Paediatric Service, GPs, the CHIS or another rehabilitation unit although health visitors, school nurses, schools and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) could also refer. ABICCUS services may continue throughout childhood and adolescence.