Construction of the country’s first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre continues at pace and this month’s photos give us the first glimpse of what inside the building will look like.
The 70-bed purpose-built rehabilitation centre near Loughborough, which will be staffed and run by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, aims to transform rehabilitation in the UK and is due to begin receiving its first patients in Summer 2025.
Inside the building, all the walls are now up and are being boarded and plastered, lifts have been installed underfloor heating is being laid throughout the site.
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A Nottingham man who suffered a life-changing head injury has thanked the team who helped him to regain his independence, as part of National Occupational Therapists Week.
Harvey Trout, 60, a retired flooring businessman, has heaped praise on the teams across Nottingham University Hospitals who have helped him to get back on his feet after he fell, suffering a head trauma and multiple neck fractures.
On the day of his accident in May 2023, Harvey had spent the day with his son and friends watching Nottingham Forest beat Arsenal at home and had gone to his local pub once he got home.
A PhD student exploring how the brain communicates with knee muscles after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury has won first prize at the NRC Rehabilitation Technologies conference 2024 with a poster explaining her research.
Tamara Valenčič, studying at Loughborough University and part-funded by the National Rehabilitation Centre, explained that it’s not just about the mechanics of knee joints – it’s understanding how the central nervous system communicates with the knee muscles after ACL surgery.
Posting 12 months on from our official ‘green light’ moment, the potential of the NRC is becoming even clearer with our building shaping up and our wider programme picking up pace as we get ready to start treating patients in 2025.
Along with the rest of the NHS, we received and read Lord Darzi’s report recently with interest.
Two key points were of greatest interest to us as we continue the preparations to open the first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre – the impact better NHS care can have on helping people return to work after illness or injury, and how imperative it is that we embrace and implement technology in healthcare settings to increase efficiency.
Five more apprentices are on their way to becoming Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioners who will support patients at our brand-new National Rehabilitation Centre.
The NRC, in partnership with Birmingham City University, launched the apprenticeship course in September 2023 - the first of its kind - which aims to help change the future of rehabilitation training in the country.
The Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner Apprenticeship course combines academic lectures delivered by the university with on-the-job training at Linden lodge, our neuro-rehabilitation unit, which is moving to become part of the NRC, as well as at the state of the art NRC facility when it opens next year.
My story started when I was just five years old.
I was kicked in the shin at school, which triggered an extremely rare condition: Lymphangiomatosis of the limb, which in basic terms, sent my lymphatic system into overdrive and dissolved the bone and skin in my leg.
At the time of my diagnosis, there were only seven recorded cases in the world, and no cure.
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