Saving brains: save brains, save money, change lives

Saving brains: save brains, save money, change lives This report warns that, if the thrombectomy rate stays at 2020/21 levels, 47,112 stroke patients in England would miss out on the acute stroke treatment, mechanical thrombectomy, over the length of the newly revised NHS Long Term Plan. It finds that this year, NHS England missed its original target to make mechanical thrombectomy available to all patients for whom it would benefit – only delivering to 28 per cent of all suitable patients by December 2021. It calls for a 24/7 thrombectomy service, which could cost up to £400 million. However the report calculates that treating all suitable strokes with thrombectomy would save the NHS £73 million per year. Stroke Association