NRC Factsheet

• Currently, six out of 10 patients in the UK are not able to access the help they need for rehabilitation because there is not the capacity in rehabilitation services.
• In Britain, there are 2.8 million people locked out of work due to long-term sickness.
• In the UK, we have the second lowest number of rehabilitation doctors in Europe - with Italy being the lowest.
• The time from clinical research to implementation can be up to 10 years – at the NRC the research happens on site and benefits patients in real time.
• At the NRC, we are able to help 750 patients a year.
• The NRC covers the East Midlands Major Trauma network which is four and a half million people.
• The NRC is set in the 360-acre Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate and the NRC footprint is 100 square metres. 
• We employ more than 200 people from a variety of professions at the NRC.
• The average length of time patients stay with us is between two weeks and three months.
• Cost of a rehabilitation spell is £39,000 which then saves over £500,000 in health and social care costs for each person.
• The NRC programme cost £107million.
• Our NRC senior leadership team has 171 years of NHS experience between them
• Long-term sickness-related economic inactivity is at a near-record high. Disability prevalence is also increasing, with 2.6 million (38%) more people in the working-age population classed as disabled compared to a decade ago. The employment rate of disabled people (53%) is nearly 29 percentage points lower than that of non-disabled people, and this employment ‘gap’ has stopped narrowing over the last 5 years.
• There has also been a decline in the health of those who are working. 4.1 million people are currently in work with a health condition that is work-limiting – an increase of 300,000 over the past year.

Ref: Get Britain Working White Paper - GOV.UK