Boehringer Aims High with Angels Initiative

An innovative scheme to create a community of 1,500 stroke-ready hospitals across Europe has been recognized with the Most Valuable HCP/Healthcare Award at the European arm of theeyeforpharma Awards 2017.The Angel ’s Initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim – which aims to save 100,000 lives by May 2019 – was voted the winner in a unanimous decision by the expert panel of judges.Only one-third of stroke patients in Europe have access to organized stroke care, while just one per cent of stroke patients in emerging markets are provided with lifesaving treatments. In response, the Angels Initiative is working to establish more stroke-ready hospitals and help all existing stroke centers to get better at treating acute stroke patients.The scheme addresses the two main problems faced by doctors in implementing appropriate stroke care – complexity and time – by creating a set of tools based on evidence-based guidelines. The Angels Initiative is now endorsed by the World and European Stroke Organizations, as well as many national groups.One awards judge commented that it was a “great initiative, with massive numbers of patients treated”, while another noted how it was “greatly scalable and had a great impact on patients and healthcare systems”.In accepting the award, Jan van der Merwe, Project Lead of The Angels Initiative, explained that the project stemmed from his personal experience when his mother-in-law suffered a stroke in 2013. “It turned someone who had been ...
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