Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help maintain support for stroke survivors during the covid-19 outbreak.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have ensured that stroke services across England continue to provide rehabilitation and post-acute services to stroke survivors and their families and carers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have funded the Stroke Association over the last six months to provide Stroke Connect, which was developed in direct response to COVID-19 to ensure stroke survivors and their carers had support when discharged from hospital.
The Department has also funded the Stroke Association over the last six months for them to continue to provide frontline support to stroke survivors and others connected to stroke during the COVID-19 pandemic.