Question reference: S5W-31721
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 10 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to stroke care stakeholders to ensure that they are fully trained in providing treatment to survivors; whether it is aware of any knowledge deficit and, if so, what action it is taking to rectify this.
Answer
The Scottish Government are committed to ensuring that people who have had a stroke receive the best possible care as quickly as possible to enable them to live longer, healthier independent lives.
We are continuing to implement our Stroke Improvement Plan which sets out our priorities and actions to deliver improved prevention, treatment and care.
We expect NHS Boards to appropriately plan and deliver high quality, safe effective services and to regularly review services to maintain high level of quality and safety that people in Scotland expect and deserve. We continue to support the Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme as key to informing and driving improvement across stroke care.
The Scottish Government has provided funding to Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland to refresh the Stroke Training and Awareness Resources (STARS) on line training modules. These include modules on stroke rehabilitation. A new module to provide training to deliver hyperacute stroke care was launched on 17 July. These can be found at: https://www.chsselearning.org.uk/