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Labour pledges to cut heart and stroke deaths by a quarter
The first target of Labour’s promised 10-year plan for the NHS will be unveiled today by leader Sir Keir Starmer.
Source: HSJ - May 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS spending over £1m a week on private ambulances for 999 callouts, says UNISON
The NHS is spending at least £61 million a year – over £1m a week or £167,000 a day – hiring private ambulances to attend emergency calls, says UNISON today (Monday) as its annual health conference opens in Bournemouth.
North West Ambulance Service spent more than £15m between January and December 2022 on private emergency services, according to data obtained by the union.
South Central Ambulance Service spent £19m over the past financial year, North East Ambulance Service is paying just under £7m annually, and South East Coast around £6m a year.
East Midlands Ambulance Service predicts a £9.5m spend in the ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Ambulance Sara Gorton Source Type: news
Act F.A.S.T. NHS campaign
Patients who have survived a stroke are joining forces with their ‘savers’ and the NHS to encourage people to act F.A.S.T. and call 999 if they have symptoms of a stroke.
Source: NHS Networks - March 29, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Only three trusts hit new A&E target
Average ambulance waits for stroke and heart attack patients topped two hours in three regions last month, amid another sharp drop in emergency care performance.
Source: HSJ - January 12, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Artificial intelligence revolutionising stroke care
Stroke patients across the country are benefitting from quicker treatment and improved outcomes thanks to government investment in cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose and determine the best treatment for patients who suffer a stroke.
Source: NHS Networks - December 30, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Revealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 – whereas others have only grown by half – underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers.
Source: HSJ - November 18, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Get your blood pressure checked
Around one third of adults in the UK have high blood pressure which rarely has noticeable symptoms but if untreated, increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Source: NHS Networks - September 2, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Saving brains campaign
This report shows how thrombectomy is a game-changing treatment for stroke and features some of the people working tirelessly to improve outcomes for stroke patients.
Source: NHS Networks - August 9, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Stroke toolkit
This toolkit reflects the priorities in stroke prevention, identification, acute care, and rehabilitation to help support Integrated stroke delivery networks to understand the priorities in stroke care along the whole stroke pathway.
Source: NHS Networks - August 5, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Thrombectomy rates
This report warns that, if the thrombectomy rate stays at 2020/21 levels, 47,112 stroke patients in England would miss out on the acute stroke treatment, mechanical thrombectomy, over the length of the newly revised NHS long-term plan.
Source: NHS Networks - July 29, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Londoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
Source: HSJ - July 27, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
‘Shift to untrained staff’ leaves over half stroke units with too few nurses
Fewer than half of stroke units in England have the recommended number of trained nurses — a drop of 10 percentage points in two years, a report has warned.
Source: HSJ - June 22, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Exclusive: Sharp drop in quality of stroke care
The proportion of stroke units awarded the top ratings in a national audit has fallen significantly, HSJ analysis shows.
Source: HSJ - May 23, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Officials sound alarm on ambulance stroke response times
National NHS officials have called for ambulance response times for stroke cases to be “urgently reviewed”.
Source: HSJ - May 4, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Ambulance waits hit two hours for heart attacks and strokes
Average waits for an ambulance for stroke and heart attack patients have reached as long as two hours in one region, after a further fall in performance in recent weeks, HSJ can reveal.
Source: HSJ - April 1, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
