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# All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Acquired Brain Injury
- URL: https://www.pigpen.page/all-party-parliamentary-group-appg-for-acquired-brain-injury/
- Published: 2019-05-09T09:52:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-21T12:29:14.000Z
- Description: Explore the APPG for Acquired Brain Injury: its mission, recent work, and how policies affect those living with brain injury in the UK.
- Author: Pauline
- Tags: Brain Injury, Conferences, #Import 2024-07-21 13:17

Acquired Brain Injury is in focus at Westminster today as Chris Bryant, MP for the Rhondda, introduces a Debate on a Motion on Acquired Brain Injury. Bryant is the Chair of the APPG on Acquired Brain Injury which launched in November 2018.

Chris, [@RhonddaBryant](https://twitter.com/RhonddaBryant?ref=pigpen.page), is gaining a reputation on health matters following his melanoma scare earlier this year. His campaign for ABI awareness stretches back further and I was inspired by his talk at an [ABIL](https://www.pigpen.page/abil-march-2019/) forum in 2018\. Elsewhere he has noted that:

"Acquired Brain Injury is an invisible epidemic, and we need to ensure that the neurorehabilitation services required following a brain injury are ‘fit for purpose’ throughout the UK” [1](#fn1)

The APPG has already released it’s first report entitled [‘Time for Change’](https://www.ukabif.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1533%5F40pp%5FAPPG-on-ABI%5FReport%5FTime-for-Change%5F2018%5FAW%5FSINGLES%5FWEB.pdf?ref=pigpen.page) with key recommendations on

- Neurorehabilitation
- Education
- Criminal Justice and
- Sport-related Concussion.

Regular readers will know this last item is of keen interest as [my ABI came from football](https://www.pigpen.page/pollys-brain-injury/). This concern is gaining a wider profile of late following high-profile injuries which have laid bare the inadequacies of current governing bodies and medical data.

The debate is likely to take place at 1pm - hope you will tune in to [BBC Parliament too!](https://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbcparliament?ref=pigpen.page)

1. From [https://www.in-pa.org.uk/2018/10/all-party-parliamentary-group-for-acquired-brain-injury-launch-report-on-on-acquired-brain-injury-and-neurorehabilitation/ ](https://www.in-pa.org.uk/2018/10/all-party-parliamentary-group-for-acquired-brain-injury-launch-report-on-on-acquired-brain-injury-and-neurorehabilitation/?ref=pigpen.page)Accessed May 018 [↩︎](#ffn1)

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