News

• 26 May 2009 - Wheelchair athletes shine at Inter-Spinal Unit Games
  More than 100 competitors from 13 spinal units across the UK tried their hand at a range of sports at this year’s Inter-Spinal Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.

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• 14 May 2009 - Extra funding increases availability of single-sex accommodation
  The Trust has been given £430,000, which will be used to improve  critical care areas at Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville hospitals and improve the privacy of patients’ bathrooms at the NSIC.

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• 29 Apr 2009 - Hospital staff cycle for charity
  Four staff members are gearing up to cycle from London to Edinburgh and back, to raise money for the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Foundation.

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• 17 Mar 2009 - £300 goes a long way
  Physiotherapy staff at Stoke Mandeville Hospital raised around £300 for Comic Relief on Wednesday with an unusual fundraising ‘drive’.

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• 27 Jan 2009 - NHS spinal injuries centre first in country to win coveted status
  The NSIC has become the first NHS unit in the UK and one of only five in Europe to receive a coveted international accreditation for excellence.

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• 18 Sep 2008 - Paralympics 'truly coming home'
  As the Paralympic flag was handed from China to London in Beijing, celebrations were also under way in
  Stoke Mandeville, Bucks, where the first games for athletes using wheelchairs were hosted in 1948.

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• 17 Aug 2008 - NSIC 25th anniversary
  This summer the NSIC building as it now stands celebrated its 25th birthday and a garden party was held on 17 July 2008 in order to commemorate the occasion.