Deans' stroke musings: Charity pledges to provide rehabilitation services to one in five Scots in five years

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.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Charity pledges to provide rehabilitation services to one in five Scots in five years

Who the hell cares about 'access'? Results, results, results. Call this charity up and ask why they are doing the lazy route rather than the hard one of actually coming up with protocols that work.
https://www.holyrood.com/articles/news/charity-pledges-provide-rehabilitation-services-one-five-scots-five-years

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland pledges expansion of support services through community hubs

Chest Heart & Stroke Drumchapel - CHSS

All Scots who suffer from heart and lung conditions and those who have had a stroke will have access to rehabilitation service within five years, Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) has pledged.

The ambition forms the centre of the charity’s new strategy ‘No Life Half Lived’, which was launched this week.

It is thought over a million Scots are living with the effects of serious chest and heart conditions and stroke.

CHSS has said it must expand its operations to meet this demand.

Speaking to Holyrood, the charity’s chief executive Jane-Claire Judson said: “As a charity we’ve gone from moving from a medical model to a more social model, and actually beyond.

“It’s almost emergent, and there’s almost not a label for it and I don’t think there should be. We have to be responding to the changes around us. Our vision for that is that there should be no life half-lived in Scotland as a result of our conditions.”

The charity is to open community hubs, which will provide advice and support, as well as space for the wider community to use.

One of these was opened in Drumchapel this week by Labour’s shadow health secretary Anas Sarwar.

The Drumchapel hub will include a ‘drop-in’ area where local residents can meet for tea or coffee or a chat and provide up-to-date information for people living with chest, heart or stroke conditions. There is also a large community room available for local groups and organisations to use as well as a discount store including clothing and household items.

Sarwar said: “The support and facilities that CHSS are providing for the local community will be meeting a real need for my constituents, where there are very significant health challenges for many people. It’s great to see new and innovative approaches being developed in locations where they’re really needed.”

You can read the full interview with Jane-Claire Judson in the next issue of Holyrood Magazine.