West Midlands Integrated Stroke Delivery Network

West Midlands ISDN Newsletter for December 2025. Please click the link below to download and read it: keepandshare.com/doc12/view.php…

📢 ESO is launching a new Prehospital Committee & invites ESO Members with a prehospital or emergency service background to apply. Help advance best practice, research, collaboration&education in prehospital #StrokeCare. 🗓 Deadline: 31 March 🔗 eso-stroke.org #Stroke

Final Call for our Online Survey🎄 As we wrap up 2025, we’d be grateful to hear clinicians’ views on psychological care after TIA/minor stroke. 🙏 for your time @cm_isdn @ISDNNorthMids @WM_ISDN @EastMidsISDN @SYISDN @NHSLdn_CN @EoEISDNs 🔗⏳15mins ➡️ forms.office.com/e/RWuWQgbwYW

Highly recommend this event! Previous events have been so informative and inspiring! @ukstrokenursing @ISDNNorthMids @WM_ISDN @EastMidsISDN

🧠#ISC26 is happening now! Don’t miss our Highlights from #ISC2026 roundtable with global stroke experts sharing the latest breakthroughs in research & care. 📅Feb 24 ⏰16:00 CET, 10:00 ET ✍️world-stroke-academy.org/webinars/highl… #StrokeEducation @American_Stroke @ESOstroke @WorldStrokeOrg

📣 Our programme for #ELASF2026 is live. Our scientific committee has developed a programme featuring the latest research and best practice, with the voices of people with lived experience at its heart. ⏰ Less than two weeks until early bird ends 🔗 linkly.link/2QyH8

Looking for inspiration before #UKSF26 proposals open? Relive when 1,600 delegates from all four nations gathered in Aberdeen for one of our strongest programmes yet. On‑demand sessions are still available in the app. 🎥 Highlights via @PandJLive: youtu.be/oJVfdvnDUP0

#ESOC2026 introduces a dedicated Neurointervention track: a focused, non-parallel programme with hands-on thrombectomy workshops & joint sessions with @esmintsociety, @svinsociety, @EANSonline50 & CSA. Programme & Registration: ow.ly/V1h150Y8IOa #Stroke @FishingNeurons

🚀The #ESOC2026 Innovation Session is still calling for bold ideas, breakthrough technologies and game-changing solutions in #stroke prevention, treatment and recovery — creating a unique stage for high-impact innovation&collaboration👉Submit by 28 Feb: eso-stroke.org/esoc2026/progr…

#MondayTip #Prehospital beyond MSU 🚑🧠 Most strokes aren’t seen by MSUs. The future? Smart regular ambulances using telemedicine, AI, portable brain devices & ultra-early blood biomarkers to triage stroke faster—anywhere doi.org/10.1007/s11910…

🎓New module available now: world-stroke-academy.org/courses/import… From dysphagia to recovery: nutrition plays a critical role across the stroke care continuum. Explore the science and practical guidance in our free on demand course💻 #StrokeEducation @WorldStrokeOrg @Nutricia @DanoneResearch

If the UK is to avoid a stroke every three and a half minutes by 2035, the public, the NHS and Government must embrace prevention. For #StrokePreventionDay, check your blood pressure, share this message, and join us at #UKSF26 this December to be part of a forum for change.

Our #ELASF2026 scientific committee has developed a programme featuring the latest research and best practice, with lived experience at its heart. Register to be part of Europe’s biggest life after stroke community. ⏰ Early bird ends soon 16 Feb 🔗 linkly.link/2QyH8

Did you know approx 280 people a day have a stroke? Yet most strokes are preventable. If you do one thing this year check your blood pressure and know your numbers. @TheStrokeAssoc @ISDNNorthMids @RWT_NHS @ukstrokenursing #strokepreventionday

The Guardian ⁦@denis_campbell⁩ highlights survey by ⁦@BIASPstroke⁩, in collaboration with colleagues ⁦@TheStrokeAssoc⁩ showing national shortage of #stroke specialist doctors limiting access to treatments that prevent disability and death theguardian.com/society/2026/j…

West Midlands ISDN Newsletter for November 2025. Please click the link below to download and read it: keepandshare.com/doc12/259602/n…

SSNAP Associate Clinical Director Louise Clark presenting rehab data from the audit, stimulating important conversations around the challenges and opportunities in meeting the updated rehabilitation standards. #UKSF25

In our #UKSF25 session on physical activity guidelines, we discussed the challenges facing stroke survivors to return to physical activity. “In hospital, people learn to become sedentary, and there needs to be more support to break down those barriers and build confidence.”

Great day at our Mechanic Thrombectomy pathway workshop! Thanks to Dr Jatt Khaira & Dr Indira Natarajan Thanks to all attendees from @uhbtrust @nhsuhcw @DudleyGroupNHS @WorcsAcuteNHS @SWBHnhs

What a fantastic night at the HSJ Awards in London! ✨🏆 I’m delighted that our Stroke Thrombectomy and Interventional Neuroradiology teams won two awards — Modernising Diagnostics award and Acute Sector Innovation of the Year. A proud moment for all of us and great recognition of the incredible work transforming stroke thrombectomy care at @UHNM_NHS