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Crisis looms in UK spinal injury care

Lack of public health capacity is leaving many spinally injured people vulnerable through lack of overnight care, trapped in inappropriate nursing homes or forced to move away from their communities.

That is according to experts at the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) who have shared with NR Times their concerns about the impact of public health care gaps on the UK’s spinal cord injured population.
By |2026-02-12T08:55:28+00:0030 March 2023|Spinal injury, Spinal Injuries Association, News|

“Rehab saved my life, now I’m committed to paying back that debt”

Dr Bruce Powell was Australia’s longest-serving state director of organ and tissue donation, an experienced anaesthetist and head of an intensive care unit before a horrific cycling accident halted his career.  During his 25-year career, Dr Powell worked as a medical officer with the Royal Navy, and as a kidney specialist, intensive care doctor and anaesthetist in the Australian health system. He led a new intensive care unit in Western Australia’s Rockingham Hospital and after introducing an organ donation operation within the facility, he was asked by the Australian Government’s organ donation authority, DonateLife, to lead their work throughout Western Australia.  But his impressive career would come to a dramatic end in September 2018 when he took a trip to the east coast of Australia to compete in a charity bike ride on the Great Ocean Road.

By |2024-07-04T17:33:56+01:0017 March 2023|News, Patient stories|
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