Episode 9: Brain Injury Service Provision – Broken pathways

One person is admitted to hospital with a brain injury every 90 seconds within the UK which equates to approximately 977 admissions to hospital a day. More and more people are surviving brain injuries due to advances in acute medicine but this means more needs to be done so these people can access ongoing community neurorehabilitation to optimise their recovery and reduce the longer term societal impacts.

 

In this episode, Paul and Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist, Natalie Mackenzie, discuss the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Acquired Brain Injury whose main objective is to raise awareness of brain injury and to seek improvements in support and services across the UK for people who are directly affected.