Community Stroke Services - Report

Healthwatch North Somerset began to focus on the experience of stroke survivors in direct response to the feedback, queries and intelligence gathered in 2014/2015. We reported on stroke survivor’s experiences of accessing community stroke rehabilitation services and therapies following their discharge from hospital in the Healthwatch North Somerset ‘Special Enquiry: Community Stoke Services’ Report which was published in April 2015.  The Report made four recommendations based on stroke survivor’s experiences.   

In 2017 Healthwatch North Somerset reviewed feedback received after 2015 about experiences from stroke survivors. We also received enquiries from previous stroke survivors who queried whether the recommendations made in the 2015 Report had been implemented and whether there was evidence of any impact on the experiences of more recent stroke survivors who had been discharged from hospital into North Somerset Community Rehabilitation Services and Therapies between 2015 and 2017.