☺️Thank you for great audience questions at the webinar this evening. More research is needed to get clearer answers so let’s keep prehospital stroke care in the spotlight 🔦

📣 Last call! Please share your views about whether stroke services should routinely assess hearing. The survey takes three minutes and all responses count 👍🏻

🏆 Another great milestone just passed with 400 calls made to thrombectomy teams from SPEEDY 🚑 🤩. Thank you and please please keep calling 🫶🏻

Thank you Josh Miller for sharing SPEEDY with the Hereford students. With great support from the NHS 🚑 community we’ll soon know whether all future students need to learn how to make SPEEDY calls 🔮

This 2 minute animation from the Stroke Association explains thrombectomy and the challenge of providing rapid treatment everywhere. SPEEDY will show how emergency care for stroke patients can be made fairer across the NHS 🫶🏻   #savingbrains

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Please spend a few minutes online to describe what happens about hearing problems in your stroke service and help us plan a new study👇🏻🙏🏻 British & Irish Association of Stroke Physicians Stroke Association Royal College of Occupational Therapists David Hargroves 💙 Deb Lowe💙 Rebecca Fisher @

👀 Exciting new research assistant/associate opportunity available in our team. If you want to make a difference to NHS stroke care then we’d like to hear from you. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Fantastic to see this piece of work from my Stroke Association funded fellowship published NEAS Research & Development Newcastle Stroke Research

⏱️ Latest data shows SPEEDY 🚑 calls typically last 5 minutes. It takes less time to triage for thrombectomy centre admission than making 🫖 👍🏻 #MakeTheCall

📣 Latest UK model shows 15% stroke patients should have life changing thrombectomy. SPEEDY 🚑 🏥 are creating vital evidence about quickly finding and treating the 1 in 7 🫶🏻 #MakeTheCall #savingbrains ⁦David Hargroves 💙⁩ ⁦Stroke Association⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

📢 Calling all stroke care professionals! We’re collecting information about hearing assessments by stroke services. It takes a few minutes and all views count 🙏🏻 newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/hearing-assess…

🌟The programme is LIVE! The full programme is now available for BIASP Trainees Meeting 2024 taking place on the 14th and 15th March. Check out the programme and sign up today! buff.ly/3RuidXy #BIASP #TrainWithBIASP

🤔 Why SPEEDY? 70% of people live in 🔵 zones where hospitals CAN’T offer thrombectomy on site and transfers delay treatment ⏳. SPEEDY is showing whether thrombectomy direct admission 🔴 zones should be expanded for selected 🚑 patients #MakeTheCall #SavingBrains

Fully funded stroke rehabilitation PhD in an exciting topic currently out to advert: The effects of mental practice on upper-limb recovery after stroke at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

📢 🤩 Delighted to welcome the South Central Ambulance Service and Southampton stroke team who go live TODAY as the 4th region helping to deliver the SPEEDY trial 🤝🙏🏻 #MakeTheCall #SpeedyLaunch #savingbrains

🤩 inspiring to hear James’s story. Let’s keep working together to create evidence that will offer more patients the opportunity for faster thrombectomy 🚑 🧠 🪠

SPEEDY team are in Southampton this chilly morning. Looking forward to meeting the stroke team and an early spring SPEEDY 🚀 with colleagues at SCAS ambulance 🤩 #speedylaunch #savingbrains

There’s an exciting early 🎄🎁 for SPEEDY because we’ve passed 300 🚑 calls 🤩. Huge thanks and Seasons Greetings to everyone helping create the evidence needed for a brighter future in emergency stroke care

To name a few CTRU Complex Interventions Leeds CTRU Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research #AnneForster Audrey Bowen
Alexio Dr Lauren Moreau Kate Radford Lisa Kidd Newcastle Stroke Research Prof Gillian E Mead Rebecca Palmer Prof Jonathan Mant Shirley Thomas Avril Drummond💙

And now Prof Chris Price presenting work about access to thrombectomy #uksf2023