Stroke services engagement report-West Yorkshire and Harrogate
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Across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, health and social care services, including the NHS, are working together to look at better ways of delivering care for people who have a stroke. This has been highlighted as a priority in the draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for the area.
Before decisions were made on the future of stroke services in West Yorkshire and Harrogate, Healthwatch organisations across the area wanted to find out what people think about the services that are currently provided and what would be important to them should they have a stroke, or care for someone who has now or in the future.
The engagement ran for six weeks, commencing on Wednesday 1st February until Wednesday 15th March 2017. A survey was designed to gain feedback from people who had experienced a stroke, the wider public and key stakeholders.
Healthwatch organisations received 940 completed surveys either via face to face engagement activities (830, 88%) or social media advertising (110, 12%). Of these, 49.2% had previously had a stroke.
The key themes from the existing data and the engagement were as follows: changes to stroke services; acute stroke services; discharge process; stroke services in the community; awareness and prevention.