P&J Live, Aberdeen, is the location for the 20th anniversary celebration of the UK Stroke Forum. The UK Stroke Forum is the UK’s largest multidisciplinary conference for stroke care professionals. UKSF fosters knowledge exchange, collaboration, and innovation in stroke prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. The forum features a diverse range of activities, including keynote presentations from …
Welsh Stroke Symposium
Capture Stroke are happy to announce that we will be attending the Welsh Stroke Symposium at the All Nations Centre, Cardiff on 13th November 2025. The Symposium will focus on key challenge areas in stroke services including: Capture Stroke can support teams with Data collection, Rehabilitation with the use of Capture Therapy, Patient Flow and …
Routinely collected data fuels a route to better stroke care and research
Improvements in the stroke care pathway have been catalysed by nationwide routinely collected data, standardised through the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). However, Professor Dame Caroline Watkins, Director of UCLan’s Applied Health Research hub and leader of their Stroke Research Team, and Professor Liz Lightbody, Professor of Stroke Care and Improvement at the Faculty …
Teamwork gets to the Heart of Stroke Data Capture with CaptureStroke
The stroke data team at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital reveal their ambition and drive to spread the benefits of CaptureStroke across the whole unit, improving care quality for patients. The most immediate and obvious reason for an NHS trust to invest in a digital clinical pathway for stroke care might be to help it meet SSNAP criteria for …
Data capture no obstacle for stroke care therapy changes at West Suffolk Hospital
The new SSNAP dataset will bring big changes to the NHS stroke care pathway. As Karen Hurst, Stroke Data Systems Manager at West Suffolk Hospital, explains, the support of an established software system means the therapy teams can embrace new ways of working without data capture for new criteria becoming a distraction. When it lands on 1st October, …
Clinical information demands can drive change in NHS procurement
EPRs hog the limelight when it comes to NHS procurement. But Steve Hopkins, Capture Stroke’s new CEO, says it’s time to refocus on the capacity of clinical decision support systems to support the growing information needs of speciality care services. Under intense economic pressure, it isn’t surprising that the NHS is focused so heavily on …
Capture Stroke helps NHS stroke care teams to meet latest SSNAP changes
Capture Stroke helps NHS stroke care teams to meet latest SSNAP changes Upcoming SSNAP changes will prioritise patient focus for stroke care rehab and treatment delivery. Capture Stroke’s Chief Technology Officer Stephen Middleton explains how early collaboration on system development with customers means clinical and data teams can be confident about meeting the requirements of …
Calling time on the swivel chair: new stroke guidelines create opportunity for a digital reset
Calling time on the swivel chair: new stroke guidelines create opportunity for a digital reset If the NHS uses stroke care guideline changes to introduce agile new systems, clinicians and their patients will see the benefits of more streamlined care delivery, and ICBs will be better able to meet new SSNAP data collection requirements. Capture …
Transforming Patient Pathways: How data driven care can ease preventive health transition
Prevention might be better than cure. But as health systems struggle to build more proactive healthcare models based on prevention rather than constantly waging a rearguard campaign, Capture Stroke Partnership Director Emma Sheldon suggests that macro level system choices could provide the essential lever for change. Many of the creaks and groans emanating from health …
Real time data collection changes the game for the stroke patient pathway
An integrated live stroke registry can enable clinicians to stay on the front foot across the entire patient pathway. Richard Barrett, Cardiac Information Systems Administrator at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, anticipates a bright future for best practice in the recording of clinical information.