Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to institute mobile screening for stroke, to allow treatment to be provided in ambulances as occurs in Germany.

In early 2022, NHS England and NHS Improvement will fund several areas in England to implement pre-hospital video triage for people with a suspected stroke. Patients will receive a video consultation from their home or within an ambulance with a hospital-based stroke clinician, who will advise the paramedics on the best treatment.

NHS England and NHS Improvement will continue to work with ambulance services in England and integrated stroke delivery networks to improve pre-hospital care for stroke patients and deliver improvements and innovation across the hyperacute stroke pathway.