{"id":10010,"date":"2021-03-16T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:47:42","slug":"stroke-action-plan-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/stroke-action-plan-for-europe\/10010\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Action Plan for Europe rolls out"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bid to provide better care to patients and implement national strategies to reduce the risk of strokes, we hear from the European Stroke Organisation as it begins to roll out its largest stroke project ever undertaken, the Stroke Action Plan for Europe<\/a>.<\/h2>\n

The mission of the European Stroke Organisation<\/a> (ESO) is to reduce the burden of stroke in Europe. ESO also acts as the voice of stroke in Europe and aims to improve stroke care by providing medical education to healthcare professionals and the lay public. In order to reach this goal, ESO oversees many programmes focused on stroke treatment and care, (i.e. guidelines, the Stroke Action Plan for Europe<\/a> – SAP-E) education (i.e. Stroke Summer School, Stroke Winter Schools, European Master Programme in Stroke Medicine) and sharing of best practices (i.e. ESO-EAST, Department to Department Visit Programme, ESO blog). The ESO supports several committees comprised of volunteer members in order to drive forward its mission via practical programming.<\/p>\n

The Stroke Action Plan for Europe (SAP-E)<\/h3>\n

The Stroke Action Plan for Europe (SAP-E) is one part of implementing this mission, addressing a European institutional level. SAP-E provides a basic road map and sets targets for the implementation of evidence-based preventive actions and stroke services till 2030. At present, less than half of all patients with stroke in Europe receive appropriate care, with large inequalities between and within countries. ESO believes that by adopting evidence-based principles of prevention and care, the burden of stroke in Europe can be substantially reduced with large cost savings for society as a whole. The Stroke Action Plan has been published together with the Stroke Alliance for Europe<\/a> (SAFE). As a pan-European initiative, it will convene authorities, health care providers and patients together to reduce the burden of stroke by a collaborative and systematic effort.<\/p>\n

SAP-E is the largest stroke project ever undertaken in Europe and has four overarching targets:<\/p>\n