Action For Brain Injury Week 2023
In her latest blog, Trainee Solicitor Molly Evans, discusses what ‘Action For Brain Injury Week’ is and what we can do to help and suport you…
What Is Action For Brain Injury Awareness Week?
This awareness week was established by the charity Headway in 2010. The annual event has become a very important date in the calendar which aims to raise awareness of the impact of acquired brain injuries.
This year, the focus has been to encourage people to ‘take a second’ to reflect on this stark statistic released by Headway: every 90 seconds one person is admitted to hospital with a brain injury in the UK alone. Headway’s study between 2019/20 revealed that this equates to an increase of 12% in hospital admission of this kind since 2005/06. The study revealed that the majority of these hospital admissions were as a result of strokes and that men are 1.5 times more likely to suffer a head injury than women. With this said, the number of women who were admitted with a brain injury has increased by 28% since 2005.
In June 2023, the Government are due to announce their new surgery for dealing with acquired brain injuries. However, the NHS often lacks the resources to provide effective support for patients suffering from a brain injury.
Melanie Bowden, Network Support Manager for Headway in Northern Ireland said “the significant prevalence of acquired brain injury (ABI) across all ages is important to recognise. The support that our charities offer, is vital to re-able survivors, with both physical and hidden disabilities and their family members, to manage their daily and future lives.”
How Can Timms Help?
Our dedicated team of Solicitors have experience across a wide range of personal injury and clinical negligence matters, including dealing with brain injury claims and helping victims to be sufficiently compensated.
We provide expert advice on the claims process and support victims to access the right resources for treatment and rehabilitation to enable them to regain as much independence as possible.
Please email legal@timms-law.com if you would like further information.
May 2023