Question
Fleur Anderson
Labour
Putney
Commons
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.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
29 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.
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care
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