The Clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway (Ashford, Canterbury and Coastal, Dartford Gravesham and Swanley, Medway, South Kent Coast, Swale, Thanet, and West Kent), along with NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group in London, and NHS High Weald Lewes Havens Clinical Commissioning Group in East Sussex.
Opens 02 February 2018
Closes 20 April 2018
Stroke services can be separated into three areas: prevention; urgent care during a stroke; and rehabilitation. This consultation document is focused on changes to the urgent stroke services provided in hospitals across Kent and Medway.
Improving stroke services is part of a wider programme across Kent and Medway involving all the local NHS organisations, Kent County Council and Medway Council.
We are looking at what needs to be done differently to bring about better health and wellbeing, better standards of care, and better use of staff, funds and other resources. The changes to hospital-based stroke services are being developed alongside and in alignment with other work on improving hospital services, developing more local care outside of hospitals, and improving mental health and social care. We believe it is imperative that we move forward with a decision on improvements to stroke services, but we will continue to align stroke improvements to our wider sustainability and transformation partnership programme.
You can find out more about our sustainability and transformation partnership and the other projects at kentandmedway.nhs.uk.
If you would like to find out more about stroke, the symptoms and what to do if you or someone you know has a stroke visit www.nhs.uk/actfast.
Read the consultation document
https://kentandmedway.nhs.uk/stroke-consultation-documents/
Review the supporting information
https://kentandmedway.nhs.uk/stp/stroke-supporting-information/
Respond to the consultation
https://kentandmedway.nhs.uk/stoke-consultation-questionnaire/
Meetings and events
Below are details of the confirmed listening events taking place during the stroke consultation nearest to Ashford. More events will be added over the coming days. Please refer to https://kentandmedway.nhs.uk/stroke-consultation-listening-events/ for the latest list.
Our consultation on urgent stroke services stretches across 10 clinical commissioning group areas and we plan to hold a minimum of two open discussion meetings in each CCG area, one in the day and one in the evening. However, we are happy to look at scheduling more if there is sufficient demand. There has been a relatively short space of time since we were able to confirm definite dates for the start and duration of the consultation period, and in some areas we are still confirming dates and venues for meetings. This is a priority as we know people will want to have as much time as possible to get the dates in their diaries.
| Date | Day | Time | Town | Venue | Register to attend | CCG area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/03/2018 | Monday | 18:30 to 20:30 | Ashford | Ashford College | Click here | NHS Ashford |
| 04/04/2018 | Wednesday | 10:00 to 12:00 | Ashford | Singleton Environment Centre | Click Here | NHS Ashford |
Frequently asked questions
https://kentandmedway.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Stroke-consultation-FAQs-01-02-18.pdf
Amended to include Ashford Listening Event
Close of consultation amended as posted 31 March 2018