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"Eight years last October I was hit by a car in Peterborough whilst walking to work. I sustained multiple injuries, the most detrimental injury of all was to my brain, which has left me with a life-changing condition resulting in severe memory loss."
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Updated ABI hospital admission statistics

Data from 2019-20 highlights that there is still one admission to hospital for brain injury every 90 seconds, one head injury every three minutes and one stroke every four minutes in the UK.

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NHS Research Enablement Project

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New statistics

Brain injury admissions have increased by 12% since 2005-06, with there being 356,699 admissions to hospital in 2019-20.

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