Irish National Audit of Stroke organisational audit report 2021

Abstract

This is the third national audit of the organisation of acute hospital stroke services in Ireland and the first under the governance of the National Office of Clinical Audit. The first audit examining the organisation of stroke care took place in 2006 and it found that only one hospital had a stroke unit, that access to acute treatments such as thrombolysis  was very limited, and that the patient journey was fragmented and poorly organised.</p