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Sheltered housing can help you live independently with the added security that there is someone nearby to call in an emergency.

Published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine (EJEM), a new review of the existing research sheds light on how frequently patients with a stroke mimic condition present for emergency care as having a stroke.

The existing emergency medications that are used for stroke patients don’t always work, and not all stroke patients can receive them. This research is testing a new medication that could improve emergency treatment for stroke.

Stroke is a medical emergency. It’s vital to know how to spot the signs of a stroke in yourself or someone else. Learn how.

Discover how paramedic and research, Dr Graham McClelland, is aiming to improve emergency stroke care.

Dr McClelland will work with paramedics to improve emergency treatment for stroke by finding new ways to support a better response on the scene, and how paramedics’ can communicate with hospitals.

This research will find out if a new package of emergency treatments for stroke caused by bleeding in the brain, called the ‘ABC bundle’ can be used in hospitals across the UK.

When dad-of-three Ronnie had a stroke on Christmas Eve 2018, he thought it was the end. But thanks to stroke research, a “miraculous” emergency treatment meant he was able to rebuild his life.

Dr Adrian Parry-Jones is a stroke doctor and researcher. He is testing a promising new emergency treatment for haemorrhagic stroke.

Since thrombectomy became available as an emergency stroke treatment in 2017, fewer than 2,500 have been carried out per year.