Stroke services here on the Isle of Wight have received an ‘A’ star rating; the highest for stroke care in the region in the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP).
The audit is the single source of stroke data for England and looks at all main aspects of stroke care including the quality and performance of services for every stroke patient admitted and/or discharged from hospital.
The latest independent quarterly report puts St. Mary’s Hospital top out of six neighbouring hospitals who routinely admit the majority of stroke patients for stroke care and places the Island in the top 16% of best performing Trusts in the country.
Jeannine Johnson, Consultant Nurse/Clinical Director for Stroke and Unplanned Care Division at St Mary’s:
“Achieving A grade is not only an important quality marker but a fantastic achievement for the whole stroke team who have worked so hard to get here. It demonstrates we are delivering the highest standards of care for our patients.
“Our partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has been such a benefit to the Island. Working together we have improved all aspects of care for our patients. We make sure everyone gets the very best care and maximise each patient’s potential recovery by ensuring specialist care is provided at the very earliest stage of a stroke.”
Dr Ugnius Sukys, Consultant Stroke Physician and Clinical Director for Stroke at Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust said:
“Treating stroke is always about the critical time to save the brain and about immediate actions to restore circulation.
Article continues below this advertisement “Like in Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight now has a similar and fast stroke treatment pathway which is proving to be extremely effective. The partnership between Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Isle of Wight Stroke team is a wonderful example of a great cooperation between two enthusiastic teams, seeking for ambitious goals and for the best outcomes for our patients.”
St Mary’s Hospital has a stroke specialist nursing team which operates 7 days a week and is available to assess any suspected stroke within minutes of the person arriving at the Emergency Department. Care is provided in the Acute Stroke Unit which is a high-dependency ward providing specialist services for people who have had a new suspected stroke.
Patients continue to receive specialist care throughout their hospital stay. St. Mary’s Hospital provides state of the art diagnostics and interventions that quickly diagnose and treat stroke to reduce or minimise disability.
The full Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme audit results are available on the SSNAP website.
Is this a joke?…………
Hard to believe given how slow the ambulance response times are supposed to be on the island according to previous reports.
Don’t worry.
When the Tory plan to run the NHS into the ground and introduce private healthcare as the solution goes through you’ll be getting fantastic ambulance response times. They will be queuing up to take you to hospital.
If you can afford to pay them, obviously.
Rubbish
Move to the mainland then and wait 12 hours
you don’t know how lucky you are living on this island
I find these results hard to believe – I had 2 strokes (1 on each side) in 2020 and was asked at the hospital if I’d like a visit from the stroke”team” to which I replied “yes please”. Needless to say, I didn’t hear any more about it, and was only offered physio over 18 months later. This was only because I complained to my doctor that nothing was happening. As a result, my mobility and balance are extremely poor, and having done my research, it’s probably down to my being left for so long without the correct help.
You had a stroke at the height of a global pandemic and you are comparing the performance of the stroke unit then, with now?
Seriously?
Needs to be after all the clotshots