Strokes: Medical Treatments

(asked on 26th April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people with acute strokes were treated with thrombolysis in the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 4th May 2016

Information on the proportion of stroke patients treated with thrombolysis in 2015 is set out in the table below. This information covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Thrombolysis

January-March 2015

April-June 2015

July-September 2015

October-December 2015

Percentage of all stroke patients given thrombolysis (all stroke types)

11.1%

11.4%

10.9%

11.0%

Percentage of eligible patients given thrombolysis

81.8%

83.3%

85.6%

85.6%

This information is taken from the Stroke Sentinel Audit Programme’s clinical audit. More details can be found at:

https://www.strokeaudit.org/

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