Facilities

The NRC will provide a unique opportunity to build a service-specific rehabilitation facility that integrates clinical and academic space.

Learning and best practice from international rehabilitation facilities have been applied to the design of the NRC, as has the experience and learning from the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC).

The NRC building will bring together patient care, research, and training and education under one roof.

Combining high-quality design with bespoke treatment facilities, this 70-bed specialist clinical building set in acres of parkland will contribute directly to patient wellbeing. It will be designed and constructed to achieve the highest standards of sustainability, performance and energy efficiency.

The NRC will operate as a facility rather than a campus, with students utilising teaching and research space on site as well as having access to facilities on º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ campus, situated less than 5 miles away.

The National Rehabilitation Centre is expected to open in 2025.

View an animated fly-through of the proposed National Rehabilitation Centre

Advantages of the NRC facility

By integrating the clinical and academic expertise in one building, the NRC will:

  • promote innovation in rehabilitation, leading to new and improved solutions and better patient outcomes
  • reduce the time taken from development of a service improvement to its introduction into clinical practice, ensuring the research truly is transformational
  • inspire collaboration and learning, with academics and researchers hearing directly from patients and clinicians what is needed, and clinicians and patients being exposed to the latest thinking.

Sharing of facilities with the DMRC

Located on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate (SHRE), reseachers and clinicians working at the NRC will benefit from the opportunity to share facilities at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC), which is housed on the same site.

As well as the outdoor treatment facility, trim trails and exercise resources across the estate - patients, clinicians and researchers will benefit from access to facilities and equipment including:

  • Hydrotherapy pool
  • Gait laboratory
  • Prosthetics laboratory and exercise area
  • Radiology: x-ray, bone density DEXA scanners and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN).