Scottish Stroke Care Audit annual report this week showed 2,500 people discharged after #stroke in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. About 1,500 of those will have left hospital with some form of disability. Support for rehab/recovery after stroke must be a priority.

New Public Health Scotland data suggests health boards should review their stroke pathways to ensure early admission of stroke patients to a stroke unit and access to ongoing stroke specific care. More analysis of this week's stroke stats at tinyurl.com/yk4eujc3 Office of the Chief Executive NHSScotland

Ready for your next running event? Take on the London Vitality 10k this September and you’ll be supporting stroke survivors while taking in some of London’s famous landmarks. Get your charity place here 👇events.stroke.org.uk/event/vitality…

Calling stroke researchers in Scotland, we've got a funding round open for Project Grants with a deadline of 4th September for outline applications NHS Research Scotland Dr Terry Quinn💙 University of Aberdeen Edinburgh Stroke GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH)

We currently invest £1.9m in stroke research in Scotland. Do you have a research proposal that needs funding? 🚨 Is it about stroke prevention, acute care, rehabilitation, or long-term care? You can apply for research funding with us at bit.ly/3uiv7sG b4 4th September.

We're at the Scottish Stroke Care Audit annual meeting - along with many leading lights of Scotland's stroke community 😀 Here's Thérèse Lebedis OBE outlining very welcome moves towards capturing rehab data in the annual audit #ssca24

Delighted and excited that UK Stroke Forum is coming to Scotland next year - the 20th #UKSF will take place in Aberdeen, 25th-27th November 2025. We'll be recommending a bracing walk on the beach to blow away any cobwebs between sessions 🥶

We hear of too many stroke survivors coming out of hospital not knowing where to turn. Our Thriving after stroke campaign is calling for Health Boards to provide personalised rehab plans on discharge & clear contact details for more support #ThrivingAfterStroke RighttoRehab

It's incredible what people can achieve with the right life after stroke support. Veronica Murphy had a massive stroke on her birthday last year and after two weeks in acute care was put on a clinical trial for rehab NHS Lanarkshire Read Veronica's story tinyurl.com/3nx2633x

Some great ideas to support StrokeAssocScotland this September 💜

A Stroke Association report on Lived Experience showed 75% of stroke survivors say their stroke affected their mental health. If you are one of those in Inverclyde please take this opportunity to make your views known. Thank you. #MakeStrokeAPriority

Wishing everyone taking on the Great North Run in Newcastle this Sunday a massive 'Good Luck' #teamstroke Mike Fletcher from Dumfries hosted an awareness and fundraising day at Morrisons in Dumfries - good luck Mike! Andrea Watt from Aberdeenshire too!

This is great to see. Congratulations NHS Lanarkshire University of Strathclyde Innerva Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland on showing the potential of technology enriched stroke #rehabilitation which benefitted so many including Veronica Murphy who talks about her recovery at tinyurl.com/3nx2633x

You can find some wonderful resources to help people with aphasia communicate with health professionals, friends & family and wider community at stroke.org.uk/stroke/effects…

bit.ly/3NavmlL A HUGE congratulations to the team at ScotSTAR in Glasgow who completed a running relay of over 240km in 24 hours last Saturday. Their colleague Richard is a stroke survivor and the team have smashed their target - raising over £7,700! THANKS!!

Some fascinating insights being picked up at the #ScotStroke24 conference this morning. Many thanks @NeilDMuir #MakeStrokeAPriority

Our own Jolene Stark stopping to smile in the midst of great interest in Stroke Association resources from SSNF & SSAHP Forum at #ScotStroke24 conference

Incredibly moving and inspiring session where overwhelmingly left with the impression that stroke teams can bring hope & positivity in a desperately confusing situation for stroke survivors & their families. By choosing the right words #ScotStroke24

That’s Jolene Stark again front and centre of bottom right poster developed in conjunction with Charlie Chung at NHS Lothian surrounded by constellation of lived experience super heroes who give their time to inform development of better stroke services #ScotStroke24

Phew! What a brilliant packed #ScotStroke24 conference programme. Thanks to SSNF SSAHP Forum Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Gillian Capriotti Charlie Chung Karen Garrott-Russell other organisers, speakers and exhibitors.