The National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) at Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a 106 bed dedicated spinal injuries centre providing comprehensive care to adult patients with acute spinal cord injury and the lifelong complications of cord injury. It offers rehabilitation to children with spinal cord injury in a dedicated pediatric unit.

The work of the NSIC consists of diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients, both with acute spinal cord injuries and with non-traumatic spinal cord lesions of acute onset. Patients are referred from all over the UK, and from many countries around the world. The concept of very early admission to a spinal cord injuries centre was pioneered at the NSIC and this, along with many methods of treatment, have been adopted by spinal cord injuries centres around the world.

The policy of the NSIC is to provide a life-long follow-up service based on the large Outpatients Department. Ex-patients who develop complications or require hospital admission are readmitted to the Centre whenever possible to avoid complications which are more likely to occur outside a specialised unit. Alongside the full range of appropriate treatments offered to patients, the Centre also provides ongoing care and assessment of children with spinal cord injury, a posture and seating clinic, gait analysis, driving assessment and a computer workshop.
The NSIC aims to be a national and international centre of excellence for high quality diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord lesions or injury. Its aims to provide a life long service including the treatment of ex patients who develop complications or who require hospital admission for medical problems not connected to their injury.

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Plans are in place for the building of a Centre of Excellence which will free up space for ten additional beds and allow research into spinal cord repair to take place on site.
View the Architect’s Impression of the Proposed Research Facility at Stoke Mandeville Hospital National Spinal Injuries Centre: