Strokes: Health Services

(asked on 27th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the progress made by sustainability and transformation partnerships in reconfiguring acute stroke services.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 5th July 2018

A number of areas across the country including London, Greater Manchester and Northumbria, have taken an active lead on the improvement of acute stroke services through service reconfiguration. Many sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) are beginning to follow suit, with the significant opportunities being highlighted by the NHS Rightcare Stroke Pathway which collates key evidence along with indicative examples of best practice commissioning.

The national stroke programme will accelerate the speed of change, with significant leadership from Integrated Care System vanguards, who are particularly well placed to take a cross-system approach to improving patient-centred care in their areas.

An increasing number of STPs are also benefitting from NHS England’s specialist commissioning of regional thrombectomy centres. In addition to providing some stroke patients with access to new life-changing treatment, thrombectomy centres also support the development of streamlined acute stroke pathways, improving the quality of care for many more stroke survivors.

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