Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of support available to people affected by strokes in West Yorkshire.

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board have a dedicated team who are working to implement the National Stroke Service Model. This outlines best practice for stroke care for the National Health Service.

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Stroke Delivery Network (ISDN) is currently collaborating with all community stroke teams in the area to transform and improve their services. This work has identified gaps in the current workforce provision and differences across the network that will need resolving so it can deliver the recommended national model by NHS England.

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate ISDN is working with all community stroke teams to develop a long-term strategy to:

- address the shortage of qualified staff;

- reconfigure existing services to continually improve;

- achieve efficiency savings; and

- promote and spread innovative practice throughout the network.