Deans' stroke musings: Nearest stroke unit to Redditch will transfer to Evesham

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.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Nearest stroke unit to Redditch will transfer to Evesham - UK

You are going to have to DEMAND goals that lead to full 100% recovery results. Not this crap about just improving services. Services are fucking useless in getting you recovered. Likely is never a term that should be used in the medical world, specify efficacy percentages.
https://redditchstandard.co.uk/news/nearest-stroke-unit-to-redditch-will-transfer-to-evesham/

HEALTH CHIEFS are planning to transfer Redditch’s nearest specialist stroke unit over to Evesham.
Bosses claim the eight-bed relocation of the service, at Bromsgrove’s Princess of Wales Community Hospital, is being done to improve services but the move will see Redditch patients and their families facing a round trip of 44 miles rather than 16 for treatment or to see loved ones.
The move comes after the county’s three stroke sites – in Bromsgrove, Evesham and Worcester – struggled to secure appropriate specialist consultants. As a result Evesham will now house 32 specialist stroke rehab beds.
Currently, stroke sufferers receive immediate treatment at the Worcestershire Royal’s Acute Stroke Unit before being transferred to one of the three specialist stroke rehabilitation wards. They are then discharged with support from the Community Stroke Service if needed.
The changes are expected to be introduced as soon as possible to support the wider system over winter when healthcare demand is highest.
Bernice Jones, regional director of The Stroke Association, said stroke patients needed to come to terms with its physical and emotional impact and were more likely to make a better recovery with specialist care from a co-ordinated team on a stroke unit and high quality rehabilitation.
She said the charity supported the decision but added: “I would like to see consideration in the future of a second stroke rehabilitation centre in the north of the county.
“Family support is hugely important to stroke survivors, and this would help ensure families and carers can visit their loved ones. “
Dr Carl Ellson, on behalf of the three Worcestershire CCGs, said the move would see patients have access to expert clinicians seven-days-a-week, helping them recover quicker and improving their long-term outcomes.
However the decision has alarmed local civic leaders and Redditch borough council leader Councillor Bill Hartnett is to write a joint letter with Coun Geoff Denaro, leader of Bromsgrove district council expressing their concern. Coun Hartnett said: “As far as I know there has been no consultation with the districts on this.”