What's new from NHS Improvement - Stroke...
1 Feb - New publication for long term conditions
31 Jan - Please give feedback on our website
31 Jan - Latest stroke eBulletin
17 Jan - NHS Continuing Healthcare - web resource
10 Jan - Stroke4Carers - new online web resource
Find out more about the work of NHS Improvement - Stroke
Extract taken from The best of clinical pathway design: practical examples delivering benefits to patients
Increasing access to stroke therapy
The increasing access to stroke therapy web resource includes the learning from work with therapy project teams that is directly related to the application of demand and capacity for stroke therapy services, with some additional useful information around the evidence base, data collection and other approaches being adopted to improve access to therapy and rehabilitation.
Practical principles
The stroke team has produced a set of eight documents with ‘practical principles’ for improving stroke care. Being launched at the UK Stroke Forum this week, the documents include practical principles:
Mind the gap
Ways to enhance therapy provision in stroke rehabilitation
This document, being launched at the UK Stroke Forum this week, explores some of the different models adopted by therapy services to deliver more rehabilitation and provides further detail about 45 minutes, process and outcomes.
Download 'Mind the Gap'.
To find out more about this work, please contact Jill Lockhart.
Winners of Innovation in Outcomes competition announced
The winners of a competition to identify outcomes indicators for stroke recovery, and children and young people’s experience of healthcare, have been announced.
The Innovation in Outcomes Competition set a challenge to identify ways of measuring two key outcomes – included in the NHS Outcomes Framework: improving people’s recovery from stroke, and improving children and young people’s experience of healthcare.
The stroke team was part of a collaborative who won the Innovation
Read the full press release
View the poster for the initiative
Sign up to the Stroke Association mailing list
Do you need help improving your stroke services?
The Stroke Improvement Programme has a number of resources available to support you in improving your stroke services:
What is NHS Improvement - Stroke?
The NHS Improvement – Stroke team was set up to provide national support for improving stroke and TIA services. Its functions and remit were defined in the National Stroke Strategy (2007), the implementation of which is the central aim. Fundamental to the role of NHS Improvement - Stroke is to provide support for,and work closely with, stroke care networks.
NHS Improvement provides a wide range of expertise on how to begin, manage and sustain service improvements that benefit patients and staff, and publishes guidance, examples and resources to direct and inform improvement in services. The team undertakes national projects, working directly with front-line services, to identify key learning that will accelerate improvement. NHS Improvement works closely with the Department of Health, charities, and other organisations.