Armed Forces: Rehabilitation

(asked on 8th January 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many injured service personal required rehabilitation services in each armed service in each year since 2015; and how much his Department on rehabilitation of injured service personnel in each service in the same period.


Answered by
Al Carns Portrait
Al Carns
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
This question was answered on 13th January 2025

The table below presents the number of UK Armed Forces personnel who have had at least one appointment at Primary Care Rehabilitation Facilities (PCRF), Regional Rehabilitation Units (RRU) and/or Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) in each year since 2015, broken down by service.

Year

Total

Navy

Army

RAF

2015

58,144

9,450

36,807

11,824

2016

57,332

9,348

36,053

11,847

2017

55,605

9,523

34,653

11,346

2018

53,318

9,371

32,641

11,229

2019

52,981

9,678

31,775

11,446

2020

42,138

7,905

25,200

8,959

2021

45,526

8,640

27,524

9,281

2022

46,673

8,959

27,920

9,739

2023

45,137

8,696

26,828

9,572

2024

45,217

8,547

27,203

9,410

The table below presents the total spent on rehabilitation at Regional Rehabilitation Units (RRUs), Defence Primary Health Care Rehab Headquarters and the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) from the start of 2015 to 8 January 2025.The figures below do not include costs for Primary Care Rehab Facilities (PCRFs). PCRFs provide primary rehabilitation for Service Personnel who do not require referral into an RRU. PCRFs costs are embedded within Medical Centres and the costs cannot be extracted.

As rehabilitation is delivered in a tri-service environment, it is not possible to break this data down by Service.

Financial Year

Total £

2015-16

28,391,515

2016-17

22,895,461

2017-18

27,841,573

2018-19

31,852,392

2019-20

40,041,538

2020-21

32,473,582

2021-22

35,275,941

2022-23

39,037,736

2023-24

41,468,534

2024-25

30,885,020

Total

332,536,267

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