Stroke patients assessed quicker during Covid-19 than pre-pandemic

Pre-pandemic, 83% of stroke cases were assessed by a clinical nurse specialist but this figure fell to 73% during the first wave.

New data has shown that hip fracture and stroke patients were assessed quicker on arrival to hospital during the first wave of Covid-19 than in the pre-pandemic period.

Hospitals not only maintained their level of care during the coronavirus pandemic, in some areas the level of care improved.