Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab

The real betrayal is that your doctors are doing NOTHING during the first week to stop the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes. Rehab is a total failure since only 10% of stroke survivors fully recover and zero percent of that is from your doctors intervention. Solve the correct problem.

Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab 

Stroke victims are having to wait more than four months for physiotherapy after leaving hospital, according to a report.

The delays have a ‘devastating’ impact on patients’ recovery and undo previous painstaking hard work, experts say.

Around 152,000 UK adults suffer a stroke each year and some are left paralysed on one side of the body or very weak in their limbs.

They have to relearn basic movements through physiotherapy sessions involving repetitive exercises.

Research by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy found 85 per cent of health trusts do not offer stroke victims physiotherapy within two weeks of leaving hospital. A fifth make them wait at least 13 weeks and 4 per cent cannot offer sessions until after 18 weeks.

The society’s Catherine Pope said: ‘The results of this audit are a stark reminder that too many patients are being let down once they leave hospital.

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Dominic Brand, of the Stroke Association, has called the NHS figures 'extremely concerning'

The research involved Freedom of Information requests to all 209 clinical commissioning groups in England, of which 135 replied.

Dominic Brand, a spokesman for the Stroke Association, described the findings as ‘extremely concerning’.

‘Major strides have been made in the way stroke is treated in hospital; however, it is clear that far too many stroke survivors are going without the right support,’ he said.

‘Stroke survivors regularly tell us they have had to wait weeks – and in some cases months – for the support and therapy they need to rebuild their lives.

‘For too many people, their support comes too late, it stops too soon, or they don’t have access to all types of therapy they need.’