http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/royal-surrey-county-hospital-continue-13614944
Royal Surrey County Hospital will continue to provide vital stroke care services after patients and their families heavily opposed plans to remove them.
The service will be jointly provided by staff and units from Frimley Park Hospital and Royal Surrey, where an acute stroke unit (ASU) will be located.
Current hyper-acute stroke care provided at Royal Surrey, which treats stroke patients within the first 72 hours of them being admitted, will be taken on by Frimley Park Hospital.
Specialist stroke rehabilitation beds will continue to be provided at Royal Surrey.
This differs from initial proposals which said Royal Surrey would no longer provide specialist stroke care.
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In a letter sent to the Surrey Advertiser , hospital governor Ray Rogers said: "I and fellow Royal Surrey governors pressed for the Royal Surrey to have an ASU and involvement in rehabilitation rather than everything happening in St Peters and Frimley Park."This was clearly the wish of the meeting which the Royal Surrey organised for its Trust members.
"The Royal Surrey after the members’ meeting submitted a proposal on those lines.
"I
am pleased to say that the CCGs [clinical commissioning groups] have
decided that there should be a 'networked HASU and ASU' arrangement
between Frimley and the Royal Surrey with an ASU being located in the
Royal Surrey.
"They have also decided that
there be bedded specialist rehabilitation in the Royal Surrey linked to
the ASU and with access to non-specialist rehabilitation."
The public meeting, held on September 7 at The H G Wells Conference and Events Centre in Woking, discussed the outcome of a 12-week public consultation . Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS North West Surrey undertook a consultation on stroke services in West Surrey which ended in April.
Concerns raised by Waverley patient groups
It was previously recommended that specialist stroke services be consolidated at two sites in west Surrey – at Frimley Park Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital.Yet these initial proposals were met with concern from Waverley patient groups.
Cranleigh Patients' Participation Group (PPG) asked the public to sign a petition to ensure rapid stroke treatment for residents.
The group said stroke patients would need to travel for over 23 miles to reach Frimley Park Hospital, around twice the travel distance from Cranleigh to Royal Surrey.
A petition was presented to the Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS England in April before the public consultation report was published.
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'We have responded to the feedback'
A spokesman for NHS Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group said: "The CCGs have responded to the feedback received from the public by making amendments to the model of care consulted upon, through close working with providers."Both changes to the proposals consulted upon mean that patients will be cared for in the period following hyper-acute stroke care at a site that the public told us was more easily accessible for visitors, who have an important role in supporting their loved ones to recover and rehabilitate."
West Surrey Stroke System Committees in Common (CiC) included members of the Guildford and Waverley CCG and North West Surrey CCG.
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The review of West Surrey services was made following national clinical expert recommendations that hospital care for stroke patients be consolidated into specialist units.
It is part of a two year-consultation of how NHS services could be improved across Surrey.
For more information go to the Guildford and Waverley CCG website here .
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