Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of stroke care at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

The Government and the National Health Service are committed to ensuring every patient has access to high quality, specialised stroke care.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust currently admits around 800 stroke patients per year. UHCW provides hyper-acute and acute stroke care for patients from Coventry and Rugby, and in addition provides thrombolysis treatment for patients from South and North Warwickshire where medically appropriate.

Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group is the lead commissioner for Stroke Services at UHCW and monitors the quality of services provided. The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) measures the quality and organisation of stroke care in the NHS. This programme looks at how well each specialist stroke centre is meeting the recommendations for best practice care as set out by the Royal College of Physicians. SSNAP reports on a quarterly basis, providing an overall rating between A and E, with A being the best performance. The latest SSNAP report showed that UHCW are performing at level B.