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Ambulance Quality Indicators: opportunities for accelerating stroke improvement outcomes 

Wednesday 09 November 2011, Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury

Programme

Transforming stroke care: from national stroke strategy, public accounts committees, national audit report and beyond
Dr Paul Guyler, Stroke Physician, Clinical Associate, NHS Improvement - Stroke

Ambulance Quality Indicators (AQI’s): raising the bar for stroke patients
Steven Rawstorne, Medical Director, Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (GWAS);Chair, Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)

Time matters: stroke 60 – the evidence…
David Davis, Clinical Advice and NHS Pathways Development Manager, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust;Clinical Associate, NHS Improvement - Stroke

Challenges for thrombolysis: reviewing the evidence; rising to the challenges across the SE Coast
Dr David Hargroves, Trust Clinical Lead for Stroke Medicine, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Paramedics pre-hospital screen and direct door to CT protocol
Professor Jo Kwan, Stroke Consultant, Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Closing the gaps: developing quality management of patient flows to and from hyper acute services.
Paul  Ferguson, Director of Contact Centres, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS)
Roger Gamon, Stroke Programme Manager, Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac and Stroke Network

Partnership working with primary care - prevention:
- optimising screening tools for stroke and TIA
- SW pilot for AF diagnosis/back to GP 
Adrian South, Deputy Medical Director, South West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (SWAST); Clinical Associate, NHS Improvement - Stroke

Pre-hospital low risk TIA referrals via a single point of contact call centre a six month pilot
Daniel Phillips, Stroke Lead, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST)

Collecting quality data and accessing outcomes - What are the challenges and opportunities?
- SINAP, moving to SSNAP
James Campbell, SSNAP Development Manager, Clinical Standards, Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

- Implementing the London Stroke Model 
Neil Thomson, Assistant Medical Director – East, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS)

CPIs and AQIs: raising the quality of care looking to the future.
Identifying the opportunities across the stroke communities
Steven Rawstorne, Medical Director, Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust (GWAS); Chair, Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)