NHS Improvement - Stroke publications

Practical principles	Practical principles for improving stroke care: 1 - Improving psychological care after stroke 2 - Developing an early supported discharge service 3 - Improving access to CT scanning 4 - Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) 5 - How to establish joint care planning 6 - How to manage reviews for stroke survivors 7 - Being the best in acute stroke 8 - Developing a community stroke service (Published November 2011)
	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. (Published November 2011)
	Psychological care after stroke: Improving stroke services for people with cognitive and mood disorders This publication is also featured on the NICE shared learning database (Published August 2011)
	A guide to achieving changes in imaging services to support new stroke pathways (Published April 2010 )
	Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrilation - a simple overview to support the commissioning of quality services NHS Improvement has developed a simple guide to support the commissioning of quality anticoagulation services. It sets out to help commissioners develop quality anticoagulation services by emphasising evidence based practice and measurable outcomes. (Published April 2011)
	Going up a gear: Practical steps to improve stroke care The Stroke Improvement Programme's publication draws together the key themes and learning from the 2009/10 projects and includes ‘top tips’ that have emerged from the projects to help others as they make improvements in stroke care. Full case studies and posters from the projects are also available to download. (Published June 2010)
	Implementing best practice in acute care: case studies from the Stroke Improvement Programme projects (Published April 2010 )
	Improving post hospital and long term care: case studies from the Stroke Improvement Programme projects (Published April 2010 )
	Joining up prevention: case studies from the Stroke Improvement Programme projects (Published April 2010 )
	Why treat stroke and transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) as emergencies? Diagnostics and Stroke Improvement launched this publication on “Why treat stroke and transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) as emergencies”. This publication highlights the benefits and provides examples of how radiology departments have managed to meet these demands (Published June 2010)
	Atrial fibrillation in primary care: making an impact on stroke prevention National priority project final summaries. The document aims to capture the final summary of their individual approach, lessons learned, improvements to practice and quality outcomes, also sharing tools and resources developed to enable other health communities to drive this agenda forward. (Published October 2009).
	Commissioning for Stroke Prevention in Primary Care: the role of Atrial Fibrillation - Developed following a national consensus meeting of opinion leaders in the field, this document is to develop a concerted strategy towards the management of AF in primary care, in particular anticoagulant management and its significance in relation to reduction in the risk of stroke.This document considers the evidence that a review of AF management in primary care is needed to develop more systematic strategies for the identification, diagnosis and optimal treatment of patients with AF to reduce the risk of stroke. It is aimed at cardiac and stroke networks, PCTs, commissioners, medical directors, cardiac and stroke leads, public health colleagues, GPs (Published June 2009).

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