📑From Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy Following the APPG on SCI's Inquiry, we have launched our report calling for a coordinated, equitable, and compassionate system of care for everyone affected by spinal cord injury Link below 👇

Some more pictures from this week's @SCIappg which I chair. We met with members of @spinalinjuries along with MPs of all parties to discuss the need for a National Strategy on Spinal Cord Injury.

Today I joined the Spinal Injuries Assoc & @SCIappg to learn more about supporting my constituents with a spinal cord injury & the call for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy. I was pleased to meet Glynn at this event who had been injured in a motorbike accident 8 yrs ago.

Today in my role as chair of the @SCIappg, I met with members of @spinalinjuries. At the event we welcomed MPs of all parties to discuss the need for a National Strategy on Spinal Cord Injury.

The APPG’s report From Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy calls for action across acute care and rehabilitation, community support, workforce, data, and research, providing a framework of recommendations.

Thank you to all the MPs from across the House who joined us in Parliament yesterday to learn more about spinal cord injury, supporting their constituents, and to show their support for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy

🗣️"After treatment there is a 20% chance of being sent to a care home due to a lack of suitable available housing. Can you imagine being left, literally, lying by yourself?" @GillFurnissMP, Vice Chair of the APPG on Spinal Cord Injury, asking about the lack of accessible homes

The APPG report includes practical recommendations so that everyone with a spinal cord injury, wherever they live, can access the same high standards of care and support. To read the report:

📹Building a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy Report Launch A month ago, Parliamentarians, professionals, and people with lived experience came together at the launch of the APPG on Spinal Cord Injury report to champion a more coordinated, equitable, and compassionate system

The Spinal Cord Injury all-party group of MPs recently published a report on the need for a national strategy for spinal cord injury. I was delighted to deliver that report and a petition of support to Downing St with @SpinalInjuries.

✉️ Spinal Cord Injury Letter Delivered to the Prime Minister   @AndyMcDonaldMP and @JohnGlenUK were joined by the APPG Secretariat and @spinalinjuries to deliver a letter backed by over 140 clinicians, charities, @theRCN, lived experience, and Parliamentarians from both houses.

✉️ Spinal Cord Injury Letter to the Prime Minister Parliamentarians, professionals, and people with lived experience have written to the PM to call on him to adopt the APPG’s recommendations for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy. Read the letter: https://t.co/zYB1iDDIwR

Great to stand with @AndyMcDonaldMP to support the launch of Building a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy. People living with spinal cord injuries deserve coordinated care and support at every stage of life. We must make that a reality.

This recognition at the heart of Government marks an important step forward in our campaign for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy - one that delivers consistent, specialist care for every person, wherever they live. To read the report, please visit:

Leader of the House @alancampbellmp praised the report and Andy’s leadership, recognising that quality SCI care, like at James Cook University Hospital, is “not always replicated across the country”. He confirmed that Health Ministers “will accommodate” a meeting with the APPG

Parliament is listening. In the House of Commons today, APPG Chair @AndyMcDonaldMP called on the Government to meet with the APPG on Spinal Cord Injury and respond to our new report, ‘From Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy’

To read the report, please visit: https://t.co/NfxXVpOpAa

The need for a National SCI Strategy is set out to replace the current fragmented approach with coordinated, person-centred care. Practical recommendations are presented so that everyone with an SCI, wherever they live, can access the same high standards of care and support

Thank you to everyone who contributed, including lived experience testimony, clinician expertise, and other professional knowledge. Every aspect of life after injury is brought together, from acute care and rehabilitation to community support, workforce, data, and research

Yesterday I attended the launch of @SCIappg All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury’s report and very happy to support this event. Encouraging to learn that new surgical approaches and growing research are combining to revolutionise therapies and treatments.