Vital research for an area of stroke that often goes unspoken about. 💜

Thanks also to those people who shared their testimonies with @munirawilson.bsky.social to reiterate how great those challenges are.

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Thank you so much for all your continued support!💜

To finish, the ombudsman added, clinicians need to act quicker in the event of a stroke, even if the symptoms are atypical, and communication and collaboration need to improve if diagnostic and treatment pathways are going to deliver the best possible outcome for patients.

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This increases the risk of death and long-term disabilities such as paralysis, memory loss and communication problems.

Stroke treatment is urgent and time sensitive. No patient should have to endure worse outcomes because of delays to treatment. The NHS needs to learn from these findings.

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Complaints to the ombudsman of 'missed symptoms' and 'delays to diagnosis' have risen by two-thirds in the last five years, and recent figures show that fewer than half of stroke patients (46.6%) are arriving at a specialist stroke unit within four hours of symptoms starting.

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Well done, Tina! Great work.👏👏👏

Hi Dan, thanks for your comment. Sorry to see the exclusion of ME. We should add that the source for this table is the Department of Work and Pensions. These are their figures. We had no involvement with the creation of this list.

Thanks so much for supporting our efforts to #MakeStrokeAPriority, Sharon!