Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long-Term Plan, what steps he plans to take to deliver a ten-fold increase in the proportion of patients who receive thrombectomy procedure after stroke so that all eligible patients have access to that treatment by 2022.

The National Health Service will publish an implementation framework for the Long Term Plan in the spring.

Since June 2018, NHS England has been working closely with the Stroke Association to develop a national stroke programme to be delivered within the timescale of the Long Term Plan.

A stroke programme delivery board will be established in April 2019 to oversee development of the stroke plan as part of the governance arrangements for the cardiovascular disease-respiratory programme.