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For #SpinalCordInjuryAwarenessDay2026 we're asking you to write to your MP. Share your experiences of how fragmented the system already is, and your concerns about what will happen to the SCI community. Download a template letter from our website spinal.co.uk/news/keep-it-to… #SCIAD26
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What happens when the wheelchair you need isn't suitable for the home you live in?
For people with spinal cord injuries, transitioning to a powerchair can offer significant benefits, but what happens when space is limited and the property is rented?
In her latest blog for NR Times, journalist and author R.F. Hunt shares her personal experience of moving from an active wheelchair to a powerchair, highlighting the challenges of inaccessible housing, independence and the difficult choices facing disabled renters.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/taZ0vkZ
#SpinalCordInjury #Accessibility #NeuroRehabilitation #Disability
Our Rebuilding Lives Conference 2026 - check out the highlights of a brilliant couple of days of insight, discussion and forward thinking ... bringing together the spinal cord injury sector in Milton Keynes youtube.com/watch?v=FR6MWMGb…
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Spinal cord injury services are national assets, but could changes to how they are commissioned put specialist care at risk?
In a new blog for NR Times, R.F. Hunt, writing with the Spinal Injuries Association, highlights concerns that moving responsibility for specialist services to Integrated Care Boards could lead to fragmented care, weakened oversight and greater geographical inequalities.
🔗 Read the full blog: buff.ly/Yyl2evz
#SpinalCordInjury #NeuroRehabilitation #Healthcare #NRtimes
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When Disabled people are repeatedly framed as a cost, it affects how society sees us. @Channel4's The Experiment confronts ableism, segregation and the consequences of devaluing Disabled lives.
Read a blog on the programme here:
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📰'Spinal cord injury services are national assets and need to remain so' @editorNRTimes @Hunt2Ruth nrtimes.co.uk/spinal-cord-in…
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SIA calls on Chancellor to protect disabled people’s independence ahead of the budget spinal.co.uk/news/sia-calls-… @spinalinjuries @MotabilityOps
'SIA calls on Chancellor to protect disabled people’s independence ahead of the budget'
Yesterday, @Nik_Hartley OBE, Chief Executive of SIA, has written a letter urging the Government to refrain from introducing further changes to the Motability Scheme.
spinal.co.uk/news/sia-calls-…
JOIN OUR TEAM! SIA are currently recruiting for two important roles in our clinical team:
- Spinal Cord Injury Specialist Nurse (NW)
- Clinical Lead
Find out more and APPLY: spinal.jobs.people-first.com… #SpinalCordInjury
Yesterday our Continuing Healthcare Caseworker Mandy, joined SIA Trustee and Chair of the CHC Alliance @MHendersonDSC, and 13 other charities in Westminster to deliver a petition calling on the Government to fix NHS continuing healthcare funding once and for all #FixTheFunding
Today SIA joined @DementiaUK and all of our fellow charities to deliver the petition calling on the Government to fix NHS continuing healthcare funding once and for all.
Thank you to everyone who signed and shared the petition 💙 #FixTheFunding
You signed. You shared. Today, we delivered. 📫📨
Alongside 13 other charities, we took 26,451 signatures to @DHSCgovuk and called for an urgent review of #NHSContinuingHealthcare.
Families affected by #dementia have waited too long for better care and support. Now, we need the Government to act. #FixTheFunding
ALT A person holds a box labeled with a message to Yvette Cooper MP, highlighting a demand from 26,451 people to address NHS continuing healthcare funding. The box also features a blue sticker saying "NHS Continuing Healthcare - Fix the funding." The background shows historic architecture, with people walking and carrying umbrellas.
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SIA welcomes @transportgovuk announcement of stronger safeguards for disabled air passengers, and better training for airline staff. The accessibility improvements come from the Aviation Accessibility Implementation Group, chaired by Baroness @Tanni_GT
spinal.co.uk/news/sia-welcom…
📰 'People who have been paralysed following life-changing spinal cord injuries due to cancer are reporting lack of care and feeling abandoned after their cancer treatment'
READ MORE: spinal.co.uk/news/people-wit…
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BPF has joined a coalition led by the Spinal Injuries Association @spinalinjuries calling on the Government to use the Health Bill to safeguard care for people with rare and complex conditions (like PPS).
We’re asking for national commissioning where services need it, enforceable national standards, proper oversight, and transparent reporting to Parliament, so that where you live doesn’t decide the care you receive.
#SpecialisedServices #HealthBill #NHS #Polio
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I got a power wheelchair, but as a private renter in an inaccessible home, it made me feel more disabled dlvr.it/TVwb08 #ukhousing
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Some expertise comes from training. Some comes from living it.
Lived experience can challenge assumptions and offer professionals a different understanding of SCI.
It'll be part of the conversation at our @spinalinjuries event on 12th November.
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Great to be in the @editorNRTimes magazine (p32) talking with @spinalinjuries about the tricky nature of negotiating a new power chair in a rented space. #SpinalCordInjury #PowerChair
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It's Cauda Equina Awareness Day (shout-out to Cauda Equina Champions Charity) and today we're talking about Deryck's story⬇️
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It's Cauda Equina Awareness Day (shout-out to Cauda Equina Champions Charity) and today we're talking about Deryck's story⬇️
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💬'The earlier people get to specialist rehabilitation, clinical support, peer support, advocacy, specialist nurses - the better the outcome.'
Find out more about the support we provide⬇️
spinal.co.uk/get-support/
To read the letter and learn more about SIA’s work, please visit our website:
spinal.co.uk/news/charities-…
🗣️Protect Specialist NHS Services
Today 33 organisations, Parliamentarians, and people with lived experience of long-term conditions and disabilities have written to the Prime Minister to raise their concerns that specialist NHS services aren’t protected in the Health Bill⬇️
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