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Improving stroke services: a guide for commissioners

Document type:

Report
Author:

Department of Health; Professor Roger Boyle, National Director for heart disease
Published date:

7 December 2006
Primary audience:

Health and social care professionals
Product number:

278329
Gateway reference:

7418
Pages:

50
Copyright holder:

Crown

This guide provides advice to commissioners on good practice on improving stroke services and highlights key issues to consider and summarises supporting resources.

Download guide for commissioners (PDF, 889K)

The toolkit, ASSET (Action on Stroke Services: An Evaluation Toolkit), is an Excel spreadsheet intended to assist NHS commissioners modernise stroke services. It shows PCTs and GPs, by using their own statistics, how better care will save money in the long run, reduce hospital bed days, and save lives.

Note: If you are having problems with the Excel file, your security settings may be too high. Before you download the Excel file, check your security settings as follows:

Open Excel
Go to Tools
Select Macros
Select Security
Select Medium
Click the "OK" button.

Each time you open the Excel file, a pop-up box will appear. Always select "Enable macros" for the spreadsheet to work correctly.

Download spreadsheet: ASSET toolkit for commissioners - amended February 2007 (XLS, 4344K)

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