These are appalling performance targets. They need to be measuring 30-day deaths and 100% recoveries. Not this intermediate claptrap. Tell them directly, they do not know what to measure.
http://www.redditchstandard.co.uk/2013/10/16/news-Successful-start-to-stroke-changes-say-health-chiefs-86656.html
HEALTH professionals have hailed a successful start to the new centralised stroke unit for the county.
Patients
are now referred to Worcestershire Royal Hospital instead of the Alex
if they have had, or are suspected to have had, a stroke with 100
admitted to the new unit during August.
Of those, around half were from Redditch, Bromsgrove or Evesham and 59 were diagnosed as having suffered a stroke.
Five
of those received thrombolysis - a clot-busting treatment that can
limit damage to the brain if administered quickly enough.
In the
same month the Trust admitted 95 per cent of people directly to the unit
against a target of 70 per cent and more than 95 per cent of patients
spent over 90 per cent of their stay in a specialist stroke bed against a
target of 80 per cent.
Bosses at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals
NHS Trust said performance targets were already being exceeded and
'excellent feedback' had been received from patients and their carers.
Jane
Schofield, interim director of emergency care, said: "This is all part
of a bigger journey to make a modern stroke centre in Worcester.
"Centralising
services in this way has been trialled nationally and it is proven to
save more lives. I'm pleased to say that this move has been a success
for our patients."
The unit, which opened at the end of July, is set to undergo further changes in the coming months.
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 29,112 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
What this blog is for:
My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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