The National Rehabilitation Centre: A Healing Environment 

One year on since the official green light, the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) is shaping up to start treating patients in 2025.  Ryder is sharing more about creating the NRC at this year’s IHEEM conference.   

Paul Bell, partner at Ryder, and Ryan McCormack, head of programme, construction and commercial at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, will host the event ‘National Rehabilitation Centre: A Healing Environment’ at IHEEM on 8 October 

The NRC will provide specialist clinical rehabilitation facilities and be a national resource for rehabilitation research, innovation and education.  The programme is underpinned by the partnership between the Nottinghamshire Hospital Trust, University of Nottingham, Loughborough University, and other academic partners. 

Ryder is working as architect and lead consultant on the programme, as well as our interior design team leading the interior fit out of the building.  

Near Loughborough, the project is being built in the beautifully landscaped grounds of Stanford Hall and is designed to create a world class facility with the architecture, as much as the treatments offered, contributing to wellbeing and patient recovery. 

From a vision brought together by experts, patients and visitors of current rehabilitation facilities, the NRC is set to become the UK’s first national rehabilitation centre focussing on NHS patients, uniting NHS Staff, clinical experts and academics from world leading organisations within a single building that promotes learning, observing, teaching, and healing. 

Writing in the British Medical Journal, the director of the NRC Programme, describes the pressing need for a new rehabilitation strategy in the UK.  Miriam Duffy, director of the NRC through Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, along with Jane Dacre, professor of medical education at UCL Medical School, and Allan Cole, clinical adviser of the NRC Programme set out their aims: “The NRC is to provide a UK centre of excellence in rehabilitation, with an inpatient facility and national outreach.  It is an opportunity to refocus on research, education, and training in rehabilitation, and to improve care.”  

Find out more about the IHEEM event 

spacious atrium with lots of natural light, plant in the centre, seating and earthy tones