Patient information

Quality marker 3 of the National Stroke StrategyInformation, advice and support, has a marker of a quality service 'people who have had a stroke, and their relatives and carers, have access to practical advice, emotional support, advocacy and information throughout the care pathway and lifelong.'

Here the Stroke Improvement Programme brings together examples of good practice for providing information for people who have had a stroke and their families as a resource for staff working in stroke services and those involved in commissioning such services.

Top tips
Working with stroke professionals, people who have had a stroke and their carers, we have developed suggestions for stroke teams in giving information to patients and their families and to developing good written information.

Links are also available to national guidance on patient information.

Information pathways

Each section contains top tips, examples of patient information and case studies:

• The TIA information pathway
  
• The stroke information pathway

Other resources

• Information for people with aphasia
• Communicating with different communities and in different languages
• Information for younger stroke survivors and families
• Links to charities’ information pages
• Involving people who have had a stroke
• Carers
• Measuring and recording improvement