Background information on the strategy

On 9 July 2007 the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced the publication of the draft National Stroke Strategy for England. This came in the same week as a speech in Parliament about stroke, in which he said:

"Having brought about huge reductions in cancer and heart disease, we must now promote the treatment of strokes to become our top priority".

During the consultation period we know that the Department of Health received over 1,000 responses, which shows the depth of feeling about stroke services. We sent our own formal response to the consultation and you can download it below in either PDF or Word format: