Our Wards - Southport and Formby Hospital - Ward15b
Overview
Stroke Ward
Contact Number: 01704 704 232
- About the Team
The Stroke/Rehabilitation Therapy Team assesses, treats and rehabilitates patients who have had an acute stroke, a new diagnosis of a neurological condition, or those who have ongoing rehabilitation and/ or complex needs. The Trust works alongside Aintree Hospital who admit initial acute stroke patients. If thrombolysis treatment is required or a thrombectomy then this is done there, and patients are transferred to Southport Hospital once these procedures are completed.
Our aim is to provide specialist assessment and rehabilitation for patients presenting with an acute stroke, aiming to make initial contact within 24hours of their admission.
Our team works over six days and consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, assistant therapy practitioners and therapy assistants. We work very closely with the wider MDT including doctors, nursing staff, clinical psychologists, Orthoptists (eyes), dieticians, social workers and discharge facilitators. We also have close connections with the Stroke Association.
We meet as a multi-disciplinary team through daily board round meetings to facilitate safe and timely planning of discharges with appropriate community services/therapy in place to support on discharge.
We measure our performance as a Stroke Service against the Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme. We consistently perform at a high standard.
The patient is at the centre of the treatment programmes by being actively involved in goal setting and discharge planning.
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