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The Community Stroke Rehabilitation (CST) Team is an integral part of the North Staffordshire Stroke Pathway providing a specialist service to residents of North Staffordshire. It is a specialist service comprising of occupational therapy and physiotherapy that delivers high quality, therapy-led, community-based specialist rehabilitation for people with a primary diagnosis of stroke within their home environment - whether that is a private home or a residential or care home.
The service aims to provide rehabilitation of similar intensity to that of a stroke unit following discharge form bed-based services. There is also the option to provide the specialist therapy programme in appropriate community venues e.g. hospital and / or clinic areas dependent on patient need and service capacity.
The objectives include:
- Facilitating ‘supported discharge’ from acute and rehabilitation care for up to six weeks over seven days of working
- Supporting patients following stroke clinic reviews for up to six weeks
- Six month ‘Life after Stroke reviews’ to identify any unmet needs and signpost stroke survivors to any appropriate, targeted support that is available to meet their needs.