Young stroke survivors are “set up to fail” because of a lack of support when they leave hospital, Emilia Clarke’s charity has warned. The charity, set up after the Game
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Robot “coaches” could one day be used to help the recovery of people who have lost the full use of their limbs through strokes or brain injuries, researchers have suggested.
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The number of people seeking advice about heart care has soared as patients face “frightening delays”, a charity has said. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said that demand to its
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The number of people living with, and dying from, conditions that affect the brain such as stroke, dementia, migraines, epilepsy and nervous system cancers, has increased globally by 18% in
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An NHS worker has thanked colleagues for saving her life after she suffered a stroke – while working on a stroke ward. Caroline Swan, 65, is a healthcare support worker
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A nurse who drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for an “easy life” and to “exercise contemptuous power” has been jailed for seven years and two months. Catherine Hudson
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The amount of rehabilitation time offered to people who have suffered a stroke should increase four-fold, according to new guidelines, despite huge staffing pressures in the NHS. The National Institute
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A nurse has been found guilty of ill-treating patients on a hospital stroke unit by giving them sedatives to “keep them quiet and compliant”. Catherine Hudson (pictured), 54, drugged two
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Woman and older people are less likely to receive gold-standard NHS care for heart problems compared with men and younger people, a study suggests. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) slammed
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Two nurses drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for their “own amusement” and an “easy life” during work shifts, a jury has heard. Catherine Hudson, 54, and Charlotte Wilmot,
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