The Leicester Tigers second row suffered a mild concussion during a contact session with the England squad yesterday afternoon and will go through the recommended protocol.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster says Parling will be unavailable for Saturday’s game but will stay in camp with a view to returning to training next week.
Club colleagues Dan Cole, Toby Flood, and Ben and Tom Youngs have been retained in the squad preparing for Saturday’s QBE International.
Lancaster said: “We have had two good days of training at Pennyhill Park and, added to last week in Leeds, we are in good form and looking forward to the game.”
Saturday’s game is a 2.30pm kick-off. Welford Road will be open from 2pm to allow supporters to watch live coverage ahead of kick-off in the Tigers match against Harlequins at 5.30pm.
England squad
Forwards
Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
Joe Launchbury (London Wasps)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
Joe Marler (Harlequins)
Ben Morgan (Gloucester Rugby)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)
Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Backs
Chris Ashton (Saracens)
Mike Brown (Harlequins)
Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
Joel Tomkins (Saracens)
Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby)
Marland Yarde (London Irish)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
The following players have been released back to their Aviva Premiership clubs: Freddie Burns (Gloucester Rugby), Luther Burrell (Northampton Saints), Danny Care (Harlequins), Kyle Eastmond (Bath Rugby), Alex Goode (Saracens), Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs), Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby), Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks), Henry Trinder (Gloucester Rugby), Rob Webber (Bath Rugby) and Christian Wade (London Wasps).
Alex Corbisiero will also return to camp for continued treatment on a knee injury.
