Conveyance of FAST+ Patients Suspected of Stroke

Conveyance information relating to patients attended to by the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) who were identified from the ambulance patient record as having a deficit on one or more of the face, arm and speech elements of the FAST test, and therefore suspected of having stroke.

Data includes the following aggregated for London:[HTML_REMOVED]• Destination – percentage of patients taken to a hospital with a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) or to the nearest Accident and Emergency (A[HTML_REMOVED]E) department[HTML_REMOVED]• Average response times for patients transported to a hospital with a HASU only.

Data source:[HTML_REMOVED] London Ambulance Service[HTML_REMOVED] NHS Trust (LAS)

Further information on HASUs: http://www.london.nhs.uk/news-and-health-issues/press-releases/latest-press-releases/stroke-victims-in-london-have-better-access-to-life-saving-treatment-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world