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Latest report · 29 October 2026

The Discharge Gap: why England’s stroke care stops at six months and the four actions that would fix it

An independent policy report by stroke survivors Maya Kuzalti and Paul Quinn, with a foreword by Professor Nick Ward. SSNAP stops measuring at six months, NICE NG236 has no teeth, and 79% of stroke’s £25.7bn cost sits outside the NHS budget that would pay to reduce it. The full report, a downloadable PDF and a short accessible version for survivors and carers.

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From time to time I write or podcast about matters other than. I’m also heavily involved these days in patient advocacy and peer to peer support for stroke survivors. Please see below: https://www.stroke-survivors.org/ I’m also writing much more about strokes and particularly public policy re patient involvement and patient advocacy and even attempting poetry. They can be found here: https://theesk.substack.com/
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