Resources

Whole stroke pathway

• Going up a gear: practical steps to improve stroke care (published June 2010)
• Patient information
• Commissioning for Quality Outcomes in Stroke event presentations, 19 May 2011
• Delivering the national stroke strategy - a practical improvement journey - Birmingham event presentations, 21 April 2009 and London event presentations, 30 April 2009
• Commissioning World Class Stroke Services event presentations, 11 November 2008
• Engaging Stroke Survivors and Carers in Service Development event presentations, 10 June 2008

Prevention

• Yorkshire and N Humber SHA - AF/stroke prevention guidelines
• Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation: A simple overview to support the commissioning of quality services (published April 2011)
• Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) Tool
• Atrial fibrillation in primary care: making an impact on stroke prevention (published October 2009)
• Commissioning for Stroke Prevention in Primary Care: The Role of Atrial Fibrillation (published June 2009)
• Stroke prevention in primary care: the role of atrial fibrillation achievements and future developments event presentations, 17 June 2009

TIA and Imaging

• Practical principles for improving access to CT scanning (published November 2011)


• Practical principles for Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) (published November 2011)


• A guide to achieving changes in imaging services to support new stroke pathways (published May 2011)
• Why treat stroke and transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) as emergencies? (Published June 2010)
• Joining up prevention: case studies from the TIA national projects (published June 2010)
• Imaging for Stroke event presentations, 10 March 2009

Acute stroke

• Practical principles for being the best in acute stroke (published November 2011)


• Implementing best practice in acute care: case studies from the acute care national projects (published June 2010) 
• Governance Issues for Telemedicine in Acute Stroke (published August 2010)
• Telemedicine: Improving access and outcomes for acute stroke patients and expanding opportunities along the pathway event presentations, 08 February 2011
• Redesigning Acute Stroke Care event presentations, 27 January 2009

Rehabilitation

• Increasing access to therapy web pages (published December 2011)


• Mind the gap: ways to enhance therapy provision in stroke rehabilitation (published November 2011)


• Practical principles for developing an early supported discharge service (published November 2011)
• Practical principles for developing a community stroke service (published November 2011)


• Improving post hospital and long term care: case studies from the transfer of care and rehabilitation national projects (published June 2010) 
• Community Stroke Resource
• Early Supported Discharge (ESD)
• Unbundling the stroke tariff
• Rehabilitation and Beyond; Progressing along the stroke pathway event presentations, 13 October 2009

Transfer of care

• Practical principles for how to establish joint care planning (published November 2011)


• Practical principles for improving psychological care after stroke (published November 2011)


• Psychological care after stroke: Improving stroke services for people with cognitive and mood disorders (published August 2011)
• Improving post hospital and long term care: case studies from the transfer of care and rehabilitation national projects (published June 2010)
• Joint care planning
• Psychological care after stroke
• Carer support

Life after stroke

• Practical principles for how to manage reviews for stroke survivors (published November 2011)


• Care homes
• Reviews
• Social care for stroke
• Working with Social Care event presentations, 20 September 2008

Please note that some resources cover more than one area of the stroke pathway.