Spinal Injuries

(asked on 15th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have sustained a spinal cord injury since March 2020, by level of injury.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 29th June 2021

The following table shows the number of acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients referred for treatment in a SCI centre, by injury, since March 2020.

Injury type

Number of patients

High Tetraplegia

573

Low Tetraplegia

404

High Paraplegia

335

Low Paraplegia

369

Cauda Equina

350

Total

2,031

Source: National Spinal Cord Injury Database

The average length of stay of patients who are currently in a SCI centre is 72.8 days.

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