Right rehab, right time

Here, Sara Neaves, Clinical Lead and Outpatients Service Manager at Askham Rehab, gives SR Times insight into the services Askham Rehab provides for stroke patients. Can you please give us a brief overview of your stroke pathway, in terms of where you are positioned on the post-stroke journey and the types of interventions you provide [...]

Known as the miracle treatment for stroke, thrombectomy, in some cases has stroke patients who received the treatment leaving hospital the next day. However, this life saving treatment is not made available as much as you would think, with only a handful of hospitals in the UK who can carry out the treatment. Dr Sanjeev [...]

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Experts believe that expanding access of thrombectomy to individuals with higher levels of irreversible brain damage could mean that thousands of patients could have the possibility to achieve functional independence. According to commentary published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, by opening access to thrombectomy to individuals who have experienced a large vessel occlusion, it [...]

Almost 20 per cent of patients who had a thrombectomy achieved functional independence, compared to seven per cent for medical treatment only

The team at Reach analyse the condition and the approaches that can give the best outcome for clients

“The stroke community in Scotland was united in alarm over recent cuts to the thrombectomy programme and we therefore welcome this renewed funding"

“Some clinicians say it’s one of the best treatments discovered in the last 50 years in any field of medicine because it is that effective.”

“I cannot understand the rationale to cut funding for a service that improves patients’ lives and also saves money at the same time."