Congratulations to Kosovo and its national coordinators for the signing of the Stroke Action Plan for Europe Declaration.
Kosovo joins a growing number of countries committed to implementing the best quality stroke treatment and care in Europe.
Find out more https://actionplan.eso-stroke.org/the-declaration-for-action-on-stroke/
Professor Fiona Jones (England), Dr Lisa Kidd (Scotland) along with Professor Hanne Palleson and Mette Brandi (Denmark) will be sharing their research and insights on self-management. They will be joined by stroke survivor Scott Ballard-Ridley at our morning plenary session at our Life After Stroke event on 11 March 2022, 10.00 – 11.30 CET.
Understand the building blocks for how practitioners can develop good relationships with people with stroke.
Dr Lisa Kidd
Professor Jean-Marie Annoni (Switzerland) will be joined by stroke survivors for second plenary (15.00-16.30 CET), which focuses on overcoming communication barriers with stroke. They will share experiences and show that even without aphasia, communication failures are common and can result in confusion and distress.
We will discuss real life experiences of how families, friends and networks can adapt communication after stroke.
Professor Jean-Marie Annoni
Register for your free place at bit.ly/33vv8lG
The Stroke Service Tracker is a survey which will monitor the progress of quality of stroke care and outcomes. This will allow for comparisons among European countries.
The data will be provided by the Stroke Action Plan for Europe National Coordinators and their teams, and reflect the Stroke Action Plan for Europe key performance indicators, as well as basic clinical variables.
This is really exciting development, which will for the first time, reveal the status of stroke care and help us improve outcomes for those who have suffered a stroke across Europe.
Arlene Wilkie, Director General, Stroke Alliance for Europe
Based on anonymous data collected from 48 countries, the results will be published in 2022 and annually thereafter.
Visit https://actionplan.eso-stroke.org/ for further details.
Our first free life after stroke online event of 2022 on Friday 11 March is now open for registration bit.ly/33vv8lG
We are pleased to bring to you two exciting plenary sessions focussing on self-management and communicating after stroke with a mix of presentations from eminent speakers, and contributions from stroke survivors across Europe.
View the programme at bit.ly/3KmsUWu and book your place at bit.ly/33vv8lG
If you missed our other events in the Live After Stroke series 2021, you can now catch up on demand at elasf.org
In its work to establish new guidelines on stroke, the European Stroke Organisation has organised a free webinar, presenting one guideline (on mobile stroke units in acute stroke management) and one expedited recommendation (on intravenous thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute ischaemic stroke).
Register now to receive first-hand information on these two important areas and to listen to key presentations on both topics.
