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.
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