Injury Prevention Impact

PRANA is helping to build a clearer picture of the causes and consequences of road traffic collisions. By securely linking police records with NHS information, researchers can better understand injuries, treatment and recovery, providing stronger evidence to improve road safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries.

The PRANA programme is linking registry data with the Department of Transport to inform and develop road safety policy within the UK to reduce avoidable death and disability from road traffic collisions.

The largest cause of fatal and life changing injuries in the UK is road traffic collisions. Pre-hospital critical care teams treat these patients. The PRANA registry is cataloging the human consequence of injuries sustained through motor vehicle incidents and linking this directly to the specific mechanisms of injury recorded within the Department for Transport's database (STATS-19).  PRANA is making it possible for the first time to assess the impact (including financial) on the UK population of road traffic injuries and their relationship to current road traffic policy. This knowledge will inform the development of future road traffic policy with the aim of reducing road traffic deaths and disability in the UK.