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  • Specialty spotlight – stroke medicine

    Stroke medicine welcomes physicians from different parent training paths and gives the opportunity to work with a diverse team of professionals across many disciplines.
    Reading time: 10 minutes

  • Commissioning stroke services

    The Royal College of Physicians has a number of resources to enable commissioners to make informed decisions about commissioning stroke services.
    1 January 2012
    Guidance
    Old

  • Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP)

    SSNAP aims to improve the quality of stroke care by auditing stroke services against evidence based standards, and national and local benchmarks.
    11 August 2015
    Audit
    Current

  • Atrial fibrillation stroke prevention team, Royal Stoke Hospital

    The Royal Stoke Hospital's atrial fibrillation stroke prevention team won the team award at the RCP Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2016.
    RCP Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2016 winner – Team category

  • Time to move on from the weekend effect?

    Dr Ben Bray, research director of the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), explains why we need a more sophisticated understanding of 24/7 variations in care quality.
    18 July 2016

  • Consultancy

    Find out here about the consultancy services we offer.
    3 September 2015

  • Stroke Programme

    The Stroke Programme has been at the forefront of quality improvement programmes in stroke since 1996.
    Last updated: 
    12 October 2018
    Status: In progress

  • RCP guideline calls for suspected stroke patients to be scanned within 1 hour of hospital admission

    New guidance for the treatment of stroke from the RCP calls for all patients to receive an urgent brain scan within 1 hour of being admitted to hospital.
    3 October 2016

  • SINAP - Stroke Audit National Results

    SINAP's final results present audit findings based on 10,069 stroke records and include key indicators of care provided.
    1 April 2011
    Audit
    Old

  • Specialty careers profile: stroke medicine

    Dr Hedley Emsley, consultant neurologist with a special interest in stroke neurology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, shares his experience of working in stroke medicine, how he was inspired to choose the specialty, and what it's like to train and work in stroke medicine.

    28 August 2015
    Reading time: 6 minutes