Stroke – State of the Nation report (SSNAP)
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) has published a State of the Nation (SotN) report 2024 on stroke care received between April 2023 and March 2024, together with a Therapy spotlight report.
Reducing the population burden of physical and cognitive disability after stroke will need to remain the unrelenting focus for services in the years to come
The SotN report finds that there has been a continued increase in stroke onset to hospital arrival time, and data from 2019-2023 show that all component timings of the pre-hospital pathway have significantly increased, highlighting opportunities for quality improvement.
Other key messages include:
- Reperfusion treatment rates have improved, with the proportion of all patients receiving thrombolysis increasing from 10.7% in 2022/23 to 11.6% in 2023/24
- The proportion of eligible patients receiving an appropriate hyperacute intervention increased, from 18.9% in 2018/19 to 24.9% in 2023/24
- Timely access to specialist acute stroke care has partly recovered
- The transition to integrated, needs-based community stroke services continues with 47.5% of community providers identifying as a combined Early Supported Discharge and/or Community Rehabilitation Team service.
However, personalised review of people with stroke six months after the event remains patchy and is only available to a minority of stroke survivors.
The report also contains five national recommendations that are expected to lead to better outcomes for patients and improve their experience of stroke services.
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