British stroke patients are 'dying from poor treatment'

Stroke patients 'dying from poor treatment' - Telegraph

Extract:

"Stroke victims are "dying unnecessarily" because Britain provides some of the worst treatment in Europe.

Despite spending just as much if not more on stroke services, more patients die and suffer serious disability than elsewhere, warned a neuroscience expert.

Professor Hugh Markus, of the Centre for Clinical Neuroscience, St George's University of London, says stroke is treated as a "Cinderella" subject.

He writes in the British Medical Journal today that the UK spends the majority of its stroke money on nursing and rehabilitation.

But if more investment was directed at treating the stroke immediately, it could avoid many deaths and cases of severe disability and so reduce the cost of nursing care.

Stroke must be treated as an emergency because patients who have a brain scan and start treatment with clot-busting drugs within three hours have a better chance of surviving and making a fuller recovery. But many hospitals struggle to carry out a scan within 24 hours.

It was estimated that 550 lives could be saved each year and 1,700 patients spared disability if care was improved.

Just one in 100 stroke patients get thrombolytic treatment compared with up to 30 per cent in some European countries, America and Australia."

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