Thanks for the long time Sheila Hale read about his family experience in the stroke (My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Would be surprisingly changed, 15 May). I remember reading his book as a junior doctor and lost differences between strokes and neurorehabilitation units I work. It crushed my medical racing stroke, especially rehabilitation.
Of 2021, without technology to provide thrombolysis beyond four and a half hours after a stroke, the son of Sheila at one time and the risks of severe brain bleeding. CT performance techniques means that this period restricting reduction, and mechanical thrombectomy becomes individual-based individuals and more useful.
Sheila is right to emphasize that the rehabilitation force is required by NHS A big challenge – the inpatients and community teams I work with always changes what they do to use what their resources are, but we have always been told that money is out of date.
The attributes of the doctors showed by Sheila’s article sadly, as the utterance of early episodes is difficult and the younger brains reflect more strength to recover and adapt. However, there is any good balance of hope, uncertainty and reality. Perhaps this article will prompt a campaign for post-disciple gyms to quit each local. It supports evidence. A stroke is always not the end, but it’s a hard journey to a new kind of life.
Dr Jessica Beavan
Consultant stroke doctor, Derby
Sheila Hale emphasizes a tragic and unacceptable fact. For decades, rehabilitation remains poorly cousin in the operation and medication of NHS. Physiotherapy services are hungry by personnel and equipment to provide effective rehab. They are told to limit the number of times they can see a patient, and how long. Thus, they are prevented from doing their jobs. The impact of patients is being bullied, as seen in this article. The effect is also fierce to physiotherapy staff themselves, which should explain this truth every day and go home every sense of their patients.
NHS do not tell a surgeon to prevent an operation in the middle. A pharmacist does not give up 40% of a course of antibiotics. So why is it ok for patients to deprive a full course of rehabilitation?
Sara Haszyard
Assistant Director, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy;; Co-Chair, the Community Rehabilitation Alliance
Sheila Hale deals with mechanical thrombectomy, a method to get blood clots from the brain. It is available in 24 hospitals in the country, but it can be 24/7 in just six. So in York if there is a stroke suitable for this method, it can only be used at Hull Monday to Friday 8pm. I wrote to our local MP, Luke charters, about it and he contacted the Department of HEALTHsaying that there are no plans to carry the York and Scarborough Trust service. Maybe if the NHS are settled for neglecting not to give it, things can be changed.
Sally Simpson
York
Really many stroke patients felt left with NHS, as Sheila Hale said. But our work in Pulross Center patients in Brixton, a unit of rehabilitation part of St Thomas’ Hospital in London, has decreased that. We provide a weekly gardening session for patients, and if they are dismissed, we are gifted to them a plant to grow at home. If they do not have a garden, we try to link it to a community garden or group of gardening a local healthcare setting.
We introduce it during the pandemic when our gardens are closed and patients stroke is self-solitude; Many feel alone and forgot. We use the gift of a plant or seeds as an expression connected to all all and notify patients with the stroke they do not leave NHS.
Pagadad to Edward
London
