An ice hockey Paralympian and international leader in disability access who had his leg amputated as a teenager has been named as the very first ambassador for the new National Rehabilitation Centre.
Mark Briggs, 47, from Ollerton in Nottinghamshire, was five years old when he was kicked in the shin at school, triggering a rare genetic condition with only seven recorded cases globally and no cure.
His lymphatic system went into overdrive and dissolved the bone and skin in his leg, resulting in years of painful operations, before he finally made the decision at 15 to have his leg amputated.
A chance encounter in an Asda supermarket with someone setting up a sledge ice hockey team at the new Nottingham Ice Centre led to Mark playing the sport, being selected for Team GB, and competing in the 2006 Paralympic Games in Turin.
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Equipment tracking, artificially intelligent CCTV and voice-activated environmental controls are just some of the technologies being trialled at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to support plans to create a national centre of excellence for rehabilitation.
The digital trials are underway at the Linden Lodge unit at the City Hospital site – a 25-bed unit for patients requiring neuro-rehabilitation – and staff and patients have been heavily involved to develop the technologies to their needs.
The aim is to ensure that the right technology is in place to provide patients and staff with the best possible environment for intensive rehabilitation when the new National Rehabilitation Centre opens its doors in Summer 2025.
The first NRC Rehabilitation Technologies conference will take place across two days in September at the University of Nottingham.
Organised and funded by the EPSRC Rehabilitation Technologies Network (RTN+), it will showcase the latest advancements and research in rehabilitation technologies from around the United Kingdom including the eight feasibility projects that the RTN+ has funded.
Pioneering science and technology with the potential to transform the future of personalised rehabilitation will be showcased at Jodrell Bank Observatory next month.
The Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibits on Tour is a seasonal installation that highlights some of the UK’s most exciting scientific research.
Running over two weekends (3 – 4 August and 10 - 11 August), the exhibition will feature a specially curated panel of exhibitors showcasing groundbreaking research and live experiments at Jodrell Bank, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and renowned deep-space radio observatory.
Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly who specialises in person-centred machine learning and assistive robotics has been appointed as University of Nottingham Academic Lead for the NHS National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC).
Praminda Caleb-Solly is Professor of Embodied Intelligence in the University of Nottingham’s School of Computer Science where she leads the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) research group.
This research focuses on investigating how socially and physically assistive robotics and sensor-based intelligent technology can assist people with disabilities and long-term conditions, as well as their carers, in providing support for activities of daily living.
Latest photos and drone footage show progress of National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) due to open in 2025.
A 70-bed purpose-built rehabilitation centre near Loughborough which aims to transform rehabilitation in the UK continues to take shape as smart black cladding is applied to the outside of the building pavilions, windows begin to be installed, and the energy centre is completed.
Inside the building, cables and pipes continue to be threaded along corridors and into rooms, and lightweight steel frame partitions denote where the internal walls will soon be constructed.
Health professionals destined to work at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) when it opens next year have been given a unique opportunity to get involved in some early research with the aim of improving the experience for their future patients.
Four research projects were obtained by rehabilitation staff currently based at Linden Lodge at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), and who will move to the NRC next year.
The research has been funded by the University of Nottingham and Cisco, via the NRC digital strategy team and through its country digital acceleration programme.
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