Deans' stroke musings: Croi welcomes launch of National Stroke Strategy

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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.

Monday, November 14, 2022

Croi welcomes launch of National Stroke Strategy

Nothing in here even remotely is trying for 100% recovery. And until survivors are in charge we won't get any better than 'care' and guidelines. YOU need to get involved and change the strategy to 100% recovery; you'll have to remove all the stroke medical 'professionals' that are holding back from even trying for 100% recovery. I'd fire everybody involved in this tyranny of low expectations.

Croi welcomes launch of National Stroke Strategy

Galway’s Croí heart & stroke charity has welcomed the launch of the National Stroke Strategy by the Health Service Executive.

Stroke is the second leading cause of death in middle to higher income countries and the leading cause of acquired neurological disability in Ireland.

Approximately 5,800 adults were admitted to hospitals with a stroke in 2020.

This figure does not include the estimated 1,500-2,000 people admitted or evaluated urgently for a suspected / threatened stroke or a transient ischaemic attack.

The National Stroke Strategy focuses on Prevention, Acute Care and Cure, Rehabilitation, and Education & Research.

Laura Walsh, Croí’s Community Stroke Support Specialist, said that action is needed, with the HSE predicting a 59% increase in the total number of strokes by 2035.

“It is important that this strategy is now implemented to improve stroke prevention, improve access to acute treatment and rehab and improve support for survivors and caregivers”

Prof Rónán Collins, Clinical Lead for the HSE National Clinical Programme for Stroke said, “Stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in our population and a major cost to our health service when outcomes are poor.”

“Much improvement in services and outcomes has occurred since the inception of the National Clinical Programme for Stroke.”

“But the nature of our changing demography, development of new stroke treatments and technologies, and the need for healthcare staff and public engagement on the issue of stroke are a significant challenge over the next decade.”

To view the strategy document, see https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/cspd/ncps/stroke/.