Stroke is a medical emergency requiring rapid diagnosis and hyperacute treatment often followed by complex long-term consequences that need to be tackled at different levels and at different times after onset, often for many years.
The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) sets out ambitions to improve the quality of service and care for stroke patients and to reduce the loss of independent lives to stroke by early identification of at-risk patients, and the provision of support to patients to help them manage their condition. It aims to make specialist care and treatments available to more patients in a more timely and efficient manner, and further enhance the delivery of rehabilitation to improve their recovery.
Under this Phase 3 Funding Competition, three challenges have been identified via consultation with clinicians and other stakeholders working in provision of care across the spectrum and review of the James Lind Alliance Stroke Priority Setting Partnership for Stroke Research:
The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) sets out ambitions to improve the quality of service and care for stroke patients and to reduce the loss of independent lives to stroke by early identification of at-risk patients, and the provision of support to patients to help them manage their condition. It aims to make specialist care and treatments available to more patients in a more timely and efficient manner, and further enhance the delivery of rehabilitation to improve their recovery.
Under this Phase 3 Funding Competition, three challenges have been identified via consultation with clinicians and other stakeholders working in provision of care across the spectrum and review of the James Lind Alliance Stroke Priority Setting Partnership for Stroke Research:
- Early diagnosis
- Rehabilitation
- Life after stroke
