Deans' stroke musings: Stroke services at James Cook highly rated by national audit

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.

Friday, July 31, 2015

Stroke services at James Cook highly rated by national audit - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

This means absolutely nothing. Getting assessed and seem by staff in a particular time means nothing. You have to look at the results - tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery. People who tout this really shouldn't even consider themselves a stroke unit.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/13507118.Stroke_services_at_James_Cook_highly_rated_by_national_audit/

EIGHT out of ten patients are reaching the stroke unit at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, within four hours of arrival, compared to five out of ten nationally.
The data, released by the Royal Collage of Physicians’ Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme, also reveals that the average patient arrives on the stroke ward within 90 minutes following initial assessments and routine scans.
Figures show South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was the only service in the country to achieve more than 90 per cent of patients seeing a stroke nurse and stroke therapist within 24 hours - and all relevant therapists within 72 hours.

The proportion of applicable patients receiving six month reviews at 89 per cent - is also well above the national average of 21 per cent.
Stroke consultant Dr Adrian Bergin said: “What these statistics show is that we get patients to the right place quickly and assessed by the right people.”

The figures are expected to improve even further in the future following the opening of the specialist stroke rehabilitation unit at Redcar Primary Care Hospital in April and the launch of the early supported discharge (ESD) team, which now enables up to 40 per cent of South Tees patients to receive stroke rehabilitation therapy in their own home.

Dr Ali Tahmassebi, South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group GP and lead for the IMProVE programme (Integrated Management and Proactive Care for the Vulnerable and Elderly) behind the positive changes to stroke services, said: “We are delighted to receive further confirmation that James Cook continues to improve stroke care.” (Not results)