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<p>Stroke survivors in England receive patchy care depending on where they live, according to a new report.</p>
<p>And despite the Government&#8217;s desire for more people to be treated in the community rather than in hospital, the right services do not always exist to support them.</p>
<p>The study, from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), found some people have no access at all to specialist rehabilitation stroke services, which have been shown to reduce disability.</p>
<p>In almost half (48%) of areas, people had to wait an average of two weeks before receiving community-based speech and language therapy.</p>
<p>Proper support to enable people to be discharged from hospital earlier was only available in 37% of areas.</p>
<p>Some 32% of primary care trusts (PCTs) did not commission stroke physiotherapy in the community, while in 44% of areas occupational therapy was not always given by staff trained in strokes.</p>
<p>Other issues noted in the report included people given poor information packs when they leave hospital and only around a quarter of helplines being offered out of hours.</p>
<p>Some 68% of areas offered patients a named contact to support them when they left hospital but only around half worked across all services, including health, social and community services.</p>
<p>The study also found that a third of PCTs do not offer specialist stroke physiotherapy and less than 40% of areas have good access to psychological therapy or stroke counsellors.</p>
<p>More than 80,000 people in England are admitted to hospital following a stroke every year.</p>
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