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Sport Collision Injury Collective<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief medical officers correspondence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open letter to secretaries of state for health and for culture, media & sport, 07 February 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open letter to UK CMOs 18 December 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCIC letter to UK CMOs_10 January 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letter from CMO Scotland 10 October 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCIC open letter to UK CMOs 13 July 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCIC questions to UK CMOs 13 July 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCIC executive summary to UK CMOs 13 July 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK CMOs letter 29 July 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCIC chronology of events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White AJ, Batten J, Howarth NE … Pollock AM. Imposing compulsory rugby union on schoolchildren: an analysis of English state-funded secondary schools<\/a>. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 2022;4. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Written evidence to \u201cConcussion in sport\u201d parliamentary enquiry,<\/a> March 2021. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkwood G, Hughes TC, Pollock AM. Results on sports-related injuries in children from NHS emergency care dataset Oxfordshire pilot: an ecological study<\/a>. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2018. download<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White AJ, Batten J, Kirkwood G, Anderson E, Pollock AM. \u2018Pre-activity movement control exercise programme to prevent injuries in youth rugby\u2019: some concerns<\/a>. Br J Sports Med 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Tackle and scrum should be banned in school rugby<\/a>. BMJ 2017<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, White AJ, Kirkwood G. Evidence in support of the call to ban the tackle and harmful contact in school rugby: a response to World Rugby<\/a>. Br J Sports Med 2017;51:1113-17. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piggin J, Pollock AM. World Rugby\u2019s erroneous and misleading representation of Australian sports injury statistics<\/a>. Br J Sports Med 2017;51:1108.<\/span> <\/a>download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Sport Duty of Care Review: submission. London; 2016 May. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Removing contact from school rugby will not turn children into couch potatoes<\/a>. Br J Sports Med. 2016 Apr 19;bjsports-2016-096220. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freitag A, Kirkwood G, Pollock AM. Rugby injury surveillance and prevention programmes: are they effective?<\/a> BMJ. 2015;350:h1587. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkwood G, Parekh N, Ofori-Asenso R, Pollock AM. Concussion in youth rugby union and rugby league: a systematic review<\/a>. Br J Sports Med 2015;49:506\u201310. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freitag A, Kirkwood G, Scharer S, Ofori-Asenso R, Pollock AM. Systematic review of rugby injuries in children and adolescents under 21 years.<\/a> Br J Sports Med 2015;49:511\u20139. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Gorely T, Wheaton B, Wagg S, Grey M, Morrissey D, et al. Written submission to the House of Commons Health Committee Inquiry into the impact of physical activity and diet on health. 2014. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. Tackling rugby: what every parent should know about injuries<\/a>. London: Verso; 2014. 224 p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkwood G, Hughes TC, Pollock AM. Injury surveillance in Europe and the UK<\/a>. BMJ. 2014 Sep 8;349:g5337. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parekh N, Hodges S, Pollock AM, et al.<\/i> Communicating the risk of injury in schoolboy rugby: using Poisson probability as an alternative presentation of the epidemiology<\/a>. British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/i> 2012;46<\/b>:611\u20133. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkwood G, Parekh N, Pollock AM. Preventing injury in children and adolescents<\/a>. Trauma<\/i> 2010;12<\/b>:221\u201338. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicol A, Pollock AM, Kirkwood G, et al.<\/i> Rugby union injuries in Scottish schools<\/a>. Journal of Public Health<\/i> 2010;33<\/b>:256\u201361. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkwood G, Pollock AM. Preventing childhood injury<\/a>. BMJ<\/i> 2008;336<\/b>:1388\u20139. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Briefing for the Chief Medical Officer on child and adolescent injury surveillance in Scotland and sport. Edinburgh: : Centre for International Public Health Policy 2008. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. Kids\u2019 lives are on the line but rugby won\u2019t listen<\/a>. The Sunday Times 13 Dec 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Children account for almost half of all visits to A&E for sports injuries<\/a>. The Conversation. 02 Nov 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wragg S. Sport injury: tackling life in a competitive society<\/a>. Leeds Beckett University 18 Oct 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Head injuries and concussion in rugby. Briefing to the Rugby Union All Party Parliamentary Group. 28 Nov 2016. download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response by Martin Raftery<\/a>, CEO of World Rugby, to World Rugby’s erroneous and misleading representation of Australian sports\u2019 injury statistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press release – ban tackling in school rugby<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. Remove the tackle from school rugby and put in place injury surveillance<\/a>. Better Health For All. 08 Mar 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. What schools don’t want you to know about rugby<\/a>. The Spectator. 22 Nov 2014, updated 02 Mar 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note on data on children’s rugby injuries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open letter on preventing injury <\/a>in<\/a> sc<\/a>hool<\/a> rugby<\/a> 01 March 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – <\/a>Action on accidents to relieve pressure on A&E <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Injury research influences UK sports strategy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Mixtape. The horror of rugby<\/a> 31 Oct 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. Time to tackle brain injury in rugby at all levels. The Irish Times <\/a>06 Oct 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. Rugby is dangerous \u2013 and we\u2019re not doing enough to protect children who play it<\/a>. The Conversation. 01 Oct 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. The Guardian. World Rugby isn\u2019t doing enough to protect young players from head injuries. <\/a>The Guardian. 22 Sep 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stokes K. Concussion in professional rugby: short and medium term clinical outcomes and subsequent injury risk<\/a>. Conference of the Rugby World Science Network 15-16 Sep 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. A dangerous game<\/a>. Scottish Review Jun 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scotsman. Concerns over lack of school rugby injury research<\/a>. 23 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC. School rugby plan ‘too dangerous’<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots WebMD. Injury concerns over more school rugby<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BT.com. Kids rugby drive sparks injury fear<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burton Mail. Is rugby too dangerous for schools?<\/a> 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mail Online. Children ‘should be BANNED from playing rugby at school’: Researchers say one in EIGHT will suffer serious injury on the field<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times. School rugby promotion \u2018will lead to more injuries\u2019<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western Morning News. Kids rugby drive prompts academics to warn of injury fears<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newstalk ZB. UK academic praises NZ’s focus on injury prevention<\/a>. 22 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph. School rugby harms children and should not be promoted, says prof<\/a>. 21 Apr 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BMJ Editor’s Choice. NHS is not (yet) in crisis, but what about school rugby?<\/a> 09 Jan 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scotsman: Expert warns of child injuries playing rugby<\/a> 21 Dec 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spectator: What schools don’t want you to know about rugby<\/a>. 22 Nov 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio New Zealand. Is rugby getting too dangerous for children?<\/a> 20 Oct 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STV. News. Book ignites fresh debate over the safety of sport in schools<\/a> 30 Sep 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pollock AM. We have to tackle child injury on the sports field. Herald. 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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