Stroke Rehabilitation
To support clinicians and healthcare professionals to make improvements in the reliability of integrated early rehabilitation for patients and carers following stroke the 1000 Lives Plus programme has published the "How To" guide "Improving Outcomes Following Stroke by Improving Early Rehabilitation 2011/12Policy
Guidance
National Clinical Guideline Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network 2010- Going up a gear: practical steps to improve stroke care
- National Stroke Guidelines, 3rd Edition Royal College of Physicians
Evidence
- The Evidence-Based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation
- Managing the Stroke Rehabilitation Triage Process
The Cochrane Library offers independent high-quality evidence for health care decision making.
NHS Evidence is an NHS England resource.
Data
- Health in Wales - Stroke Data Sources page
- NHS Improvement Stroke - National Stroke Data and Audit
- NHS Improvement Stroke - Data
Useful Resources
The Community Stroke Resource brings together and shares the learning and information the Stroke Improvement Programme has gathered so far about community stroke services. It comprises a collection of material including evidence from literature and research, business cases, inspirational presentations and documentation related to community stroke services.
Joint care planning is one of the Accelerating Stroke Improvement measures, with the aim to reach 85% of patients and carers with joint care plans on discharge from hospital
by April 2011.
The Care homes page brings together the work that is going on to support people who have had a stroke who live in care homes. It includes key resources, case studies and
information on the current projects working with the Stroke Improvement Programme.
