Cardiovascular Strategy Launched

11 Jun 2010

Minister for Health, Mary Harney recently launched the new National Cardivascular policy with includes a comprehensive plan for the management of Stroke.

 

 

 

 

 

Some quotes from the report:

• Continuing care, long-term recovery programmes and community stroke services were haphazardly organised or did not exist
• Some patients with serious disability or complex needs post-stroke require specialist rehabilitation services. There is a current shortage of such services, involving rehabilitation medicine consultants,multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams, in-patient rehabilitation beds and out-patient treatment services. This leads to unacceptable delays in accessing specialist rehabilitation services.
• RECOMMENDATION 6.8
  For patients with stroke who are suitable for early supported discharge, resources and systems should be in place to facilitate early rehabilitation in a community setting, delivered by a multidisciplinary team with input from rehabilitation and geriatric medicine. This should begin with a full needs assessment.
• RECOMMENDATION 6.9
  A partnership framework should be developed between the HSE and the voluntary sector to enable expansion of stroke rehabilitation support services and the provision of services, such as transport, where needed.

 

You can download the document here or from the Department of Health Website at http://www.dohc.ie/publications/changing_cardiovascular_health.html