Average waiting time for specialist brain injury service 73 days

According to the National Rehabilitation Hospital 2011 Annual Report, waiting times for admission to the NRH's brain injury comprehensive integrated inpatient programme range between 3 and 413 days

More complex cases have longer waiting times, the average was 73 days.

The average wait for the Spinal Cord System of Care Programmes was 48 days

The report notes that "planning the patients ongoing journey to the community represents a challenge in the current economic environment with less funding available to support home discharges

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