Deans' stroke musings: Shock early closure of stroke beds

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.

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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.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Shock early closure of stroke beds - West Somerset, UK

You are going to have to ask for repercussions(fired) if the home-based stroke rehabilitation service doesn't deliver on results, not care or services provided. RESULTS and don't let the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group off the hook by not specifying exact results they are shooting for. We have canes and know how to use them. The sword cane or Cane as a Weapon is a book by Andrew Chase Cunningham.
http://www.wsfp.co.uk/article.cfm?id=106463&headline=Shock%20early%20closure%20of%20stroke%20beds&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2016

WILLITON Hospital’s League of Friends is dismayed to learn that six stroke beds due to be temporarily closed in January are already being wound down. The beds serving people across West Somerset and beyond are at the centre of a battle by the community to keep them open.

It was announced in September that six of 12 specialist stroke beds would be temporarily closed to help finance a new home-based stroke rehabilitation service(This has to be changed to results), which would be evaluated over the next year. And people being fired if the result goals are not met.

The league of friends organised a public meeting about the closures last month.
Secretary Barbara Heywood said: “They are jumping the gun and it’s destroying morale to close them five or six weeks early means we have ended up with more stroke patients than beds.
“It was all done very quickly, out of the blue, and nobody had been told it was going to happen. It’s very unsettling.”
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, was asked to close the beds by the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and this was due to take place in January.
“We were told the CCG wanted to close them from January but the trust comes in and is closing beds now. Nobody knows what’s happening – Musgrove was ringing us up, nobody had been told,” said Mrs Heywood.
However, a spokesperson for the trust said they were winding the beds down in anticipation of the closures to make sure patients were not disrupted.
“The CCG requested the closures from January 1 and we are on track, but our aim is to not cause any upset,” she said.
“In-patients stay three to five weeks on average, so we want to ensure maximum dignity and not have to move people half way through their rehabilitation.
“If there is a case where we know someone will be there for less time, we will admit - but our aim is to minimise disruption,” she said.
The closure of the six special stroke beds is due to be discussed by West Somerset Council scrutiny committee on Thursday (December 15), and it is expected that the CCG will attend.
Both the scrutiny committee and the league of friends have written to the CCG in advance of the meeting with questions they want answered.
Cllr Peter Murphy, chairman of the committee, said they had prepared a background paper and statistics, and nine questions.
It was hoped the CCG would respond to the questions at least 48 hours before the meeting, so that the responses could be considered and discussed at the meeting.
“We are hopeful the CCG will appear and give us some answers to questions raised at the public meeting,” said Cllr Murphy.
“This is of grave concern to everyone in West Somerset.”