Issue - meetings

To consider and note the NHS response to the Stroke Prevention Scrutiny Review recommendations.

Please contact Committee Clerk for a copy of the Haringey Stoke Prevention Scrutiny Review Report.

Tristan Brice, NHS Haringey, presented the NHS response to the Stroke Prevention Scrutiny Review, and thanked the Committee for its comprehensive overview. Mr Brice outlined the key outcomes of the review. Cllr Winskill, Chair of the scrutiny review, announced that he had been notified of the death of Hannah Arveed, who had worked on the implementation team; Cllr Winskill expressed the condolences of the Committee, and added that Hannah’s work with the implementation team provided an essential discussion forum for individual agencies, which would become a model for how stroke services should be addressed elsewhere.

In response to a question from the Committee, Mr Brice confirmed that stroke specific training was also being delivered to staff working in care homes that were not run by the Council and that work was underway to identify how many stroke survivors lived in each home. The Committee asked NHS Haringey to reconsider the inclusion of a waist measurement in the local vascular check tool and stated that if it were not to be included there should be a medical reason for not doing so. Mr Brice agreed to take this back to NHS Haringey for further consideration. In response to a question from the Committee, Mr Brice advised the Committee that high blood pressure was the most significant symptom in relation to potential strokes. 

The Committee was advised that NHS Haringey and Haringey Council would be holding a conference on Improving Stroke Services in Haringey on 29 October 2010, World Stroke Day. Members were asked to promote this event.

RESOLVED

That the content of the report be noted.