Armed Forces: Rehabilitation

(asked on 29th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many rehabilitation support workers who are not qualified physiotherapists are deployed in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) Wales and (e) overseas.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 4th April 2019

There are a number of roles within the Defence Medical Services, other than physiotherapists, that support the rehabilitation of Service personnel. For the purposes of answering this question, rehabilitation support workers have been taken to mean Exercise Remedial Instructors. Currently there are the following in each location:

England

172

Scotland

10

Northern Ireland

4

Wales

5

Overseas

15

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