APPG on Spinal Cord Injury

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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 constituents, and to show their support for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy

Andy McDonald in a wheelchair with Glyn Hayes of Spinal Injuries Association.

Today in my role as chair of the @sciappg.bsky.social I met with members of @spinalinjuries.bsky.social.

At the event we welcomed MPs of all parties to discuss the need for a National Strategy on Spinal Cord Injury.

Great to stand with @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social 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.

Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Strategy for Spinal Cord Injury report launched by APPG The final report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury ‘Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Strategy for...

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: www.spinal.co.uk/news/buildin...

Leader of the House, Alan Campbell MP, 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.bsky.social 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’

Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Strategy for Spinal Cord Injury report launched by APPG The final report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury ‘Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Strategy for...

To read the report, please visit: www.spinal.co.uk/news/building-a-national-strategy-for-spinal-cord-injury-report/

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

A group of Parliamentarians at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury report launch. Gill Furniss, Andy McDonald, Baroness Grey-Thompson, and John Glen are each holding a copy of the report.

📑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 👇

An image of the letter sent by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury to Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care

An image of the letter sent by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury to Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care

An image of the letter sent by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury to Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care

An image of the letter sent by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury to Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care

✍️APPG Chair @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social and Vice Chair @gillfurnissmp.bsky.social have written to DHSC requesting a meeting to address the disparities in cancer screening and reproductive health services for women with a spinal cord injury and other physical disabilities. Read the letter below ⬇️

Andy McDonald MP speaking at a APPG on Spinal Cord Injury inquiry oral session. Around the table is a group of people who were giving evidence.

🗣️“Poor practice is expensive. Good care saves money and, more importantly, lives. The need for a National Spinal Cord Injury Strategy is now undeniable”

@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social speaking at an oral evidence session of the APPG Inquiry into the Need for a National Strategy on SCI