In a year when the World Health Organisation (WHO) has demanded action to lift rehabilitation services globally to improve patient lives and save money, Australia’s leading rehabilitation research group, the Hopkins Centre, is arguing that rehabilitation represents both value for money and better outcomes.
Hosting its first international research symposium (Tuesday 14 November), the Hopkins Centre – a joint initiative of Griffith University and Brisbane’s Metro South Health Service – will present evidence that rehabilitation makes a difference at every stage, from the acute ICU environment for critical spinal injury patients to prevent respiratory failure, through to vocational programs to get people with spinal injuries back to work earlier.
The WHO has endorsed a 2030 Call for Action on rehabilitation, describing the un-met need worldwide as ‘profound’.
Access to services has significantly declined
A leading policy expert from Canada will tell the symposium how access to services has significantly declined over the past few
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