NRC Director Miriam Duffy was recently presented with the Women Empowerment Award at The Global Gift Gala, having been nominated by Emilia Clarke’s charity SameYou for her dedication to transforming rehabilitation.
SameYou is a charity which supports young brain injury survivors to access the right treatment for them, and therefore has been working closely with Miriam and the NRC for several years. The charity was launched by actress Emilia Clarke and her mum Jenny after Emilia suffered two life-threatening brain haemorrhages while working on the Game of Thrones television series.
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A young woman who suffered a life-changing injury in the Smiler rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers, resulting in a leg amputation and years of rehabilitation, has become the latest ambassador to join the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC).
Leah Washington-Pugh was just 17 years old at the time of the incident in June 2015 when two rollercoaster carriages collided, seriously injuring all four of the front row passengers.
Leah had to have her left leg amputated from above the knee and has experienced the full rehabilitation journey, including having a prosthetic fitted and learning to walk again.
Now 27, Leah is a keen advocate for rehabilitation and was delighted to be asked to be an ambassador for the brand-new NRC – a 70-bed rehab facility run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), which aims to transform rehabilitation in the UK and will be the first of its kind in the NHS.
A mother, grandmother and midwife at Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) has thanked the team who saved her life and are supporting her rehabilitation journey after her life changed forever in a freak car accident.
Sonia Meakin, from Spondon, and her husband, Mark, were driving on the M1 motorway to meet friends for dinner when Mark suddenly felt strange and passed out at the wheel. It was later found he had suffered a heart attack.
Sonia said: “I looked across at Mark, and he had slumped over, his eyes were shut, and the car was out of control with his foot like a dead weight on the accelerator.
The UK’s first National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), staffed and run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), will not be able to accept its first patients until the new year.
We are working closely with building contractors Integrated Health Projects (IHP) to enable us to move into the NRC as soon as possible in a way that is safe for all our patients.
In the meantime, patients will continue to be treated at Linden Lodge, our specialist neurological rehabilitation unit based at Nottingham City Hospital, and by the same highly-skilled staff who will be transferring over to the NRC once the building is ready.
The National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) is proud to announce that a research team led by Dr Jessica Richmond (ST3 Rehabilitation Medicine, NRC), Professor Manoj Sivan (Clinical Research Lead, NRC, and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Leeds), Dr Javvad Haider (Head of Service, NRC) has been awarded the prestigious BSPRM Research Grant 2025.The funded project, 'A feasibility study on the use of vagal nerve stimulation for chronic autonomic dysfunction after traumatic brain injury', will investigate the potential of non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) as a novel treatment approach for patients experiencing long-term autonomic dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Plans have now been finalised to enable the nation’s first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), to share facilities and learning with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) – both located on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate (SHRE) near Loughborough.
This ‘landmark’ agreement will enable patients at the NRC to attend the DMRC facility to utilise their facilities such as their full hydrotherapy suite, an advanced gait lab and a high-tech virtual reality rehabilitation suite.
The sharing of facilities and learning across both sites has always been the plan for the groundbreaking rehabilitation estate, established by the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) Programme and facilitated by the Black Stork Charity. Therefore, the DMRC and the NRC were designed together so that expensive facilities, such as hydrotherapy pools, were not duplicated.
The final three appointments to senior leadership roles for the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) have officially been made ahead of the facility receiving its first patients later this Autumn.
The NRC is a 70-bed, purpose-built rehabilitation centre for people who have experienced a life-changing illness or injury. It is based on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, already home to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC), and will be staffed and run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).
With just a couple of months before the first patients come through the doors, these final appointments to the team are critical to support the success of the pioneering NRC from Day 1.
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