A significant milestone in the construction of the first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) was cause for celebration this week for the project partners committed to making the facility a reality.
IHP, a joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, hosted the formal ‘Topping Out Ceremony’ at the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough yesterday afternoon.
The event began with a piper leading guests onto the roof of the brand-new three-storey NRC, before key individuals were invited to cement their involvement in the programme by signing their names in concrete.
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Newly-released drone footage, images and timelapse show progress of National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) due to open in 2025.
Construction of the first NHS National Rehabilitation Centre – a 70-bed purpose-built facility near Loughborough – continues to progress, with the concrete frame of the building almost complete.
Skilled surgeons can do amazing things, absolutely brilliant things, to save lives, treat injuries and tackle complex conditions. But once you’re out of intensive care, it’s only then that you become aware of the critical need for quality rehabilitation and mental health recovery for the long road back to wellness, happiness, confidence and health – that essential support to be the ‘same you’ as you were before.
But, shockingly, it isn’t always available.
It wasn’t until we, as a family, had to confront our own life-changing situation that we could see and understand the problem. In 2011, my daughter, the actor Emilia Clarke, survived the first of two life-threatening brain haemorrhages while working on the Game of Thrones television series.
Nora Flynn, 30, had a golf ball-sized brain tumour removed from the centre of her brain and had to learn to talk again, with support from a variety of rehabilitation therapists.
Long before I trained to become and occupational therapist, I was curious and interested in the concept of rehabilitation.
An Occupational Therapist dedicated to improving the experiences of patients who have had an above the elbow amputation has successfully secured the first NRC Chief AHP Fellowship.
Simon Bell, 58, from Burton Joyce, was working on a roof in May 2023 when he fell 35ft from the two-storey building and landed on concrete.
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