Falling death rate from strokes: A job well done

Even at a moment when we are being led up the garden path in another game of dodge-and-deflect, by a health service exposed as dangerously self-serving; even at another moment when our politicians take refuge in long-fingered inquiries, when a more direct, less benign response is needed, it is important to acknowledge progress in health provision when it is made.

Two or three decades ago, a stroke may not have been an immediate death sentence but it certainly was an early staging post in the end-of-life experience we all eventually face.