Why is this HEAT target important?
Access to stroke unit care is associated with a reduced risk of disability as well as death. The Quality Strategy commits us to having informed, caring and compassionate staff, delivering clinical excellence and ensuring continuity of care. If we are increasingly able to get people who have experienced a stroke into a stroke unit promptly, we can deliver this commitment, improving the quality of care and outcomes, by ensuring access to specialist stroke care. There is also evidence that length of stay will be shorter.
How are we performing?
Target due for delivery in 2012/13
The target is to achieve 90% of all patients admitted with a diagnosis of stroke to be admitted to a stroke unit on the day of admission, or the day following presentation by March 2013.
67 per cent of patients admitted with a diagnosis of stroke in 2010 were admitted to a stroke unit within one day of admission.
The percentage of stroke patients admitted to a stroke unit within a day of admisison by NHS Board in 2010 is shown below. All boards have a local target of 90 per cent by March 2013.
| NHS Board | 2010 |
| NHS AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN | 93 |
| NHS BORDERS | 64 |
| NHS DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY | 68 |
| NHS FIFE | 75 |
| NHS FORTH VALLEY | 39 |
| NHS GRAMPIAN | 65 |
| NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE | 64 |
| NHS HIGHLAND | 29 |
| NHS LANARKSHIRE | 78 |
| NHS LOTHIAN | 71 |
| NHS ORKNEY | 58 |
| NHS SHETLAND | 0 |
| NHS TAYSIDE | 78 |
| NHS WESTERN ISLES | 81 |
| NHSSCOTLAND | 67 |
Further Information
Scottish Stroke Care Audit 2011 National Report
Related National Outcomes