PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Brain: Injuries (27 January 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people living with acquired brain injury receive neuro-rehabilitation; and what plans his Department has to increase that proportion.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

This information is not collected. However, the majority of patients with acquired brain injury can access the services they need routinely through secondary care and community services which are commissioned locally.

In 2015, NHS England published ‘The Principles and Expectations for Good Adult Rehabilitation’ to support commissioners on delivering rehabilitation care locally. Building on this, in 2016, NHS England published further rehabilitation guidance, setting out a commissioning model and the evidence base for delivering high quality rehabilitation services. The guidance can be found at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/rehabilitation-comms-guid-16-17.pdf

For those with the most serious brain injuries and rehabilitation needs, NHS England commissions specialised rehabilitation services at a national level to an agreed service specification.

Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
4 February 2020