NHS rehabilitation care staff shortage fails stroke patients, say health leaders

People receive rehab only three to four days a week in hospital – and one to two days once they are discharged, data suggests

The NHS is failing stroke patients and limiting their chances of recovery because of a shortage of rehabilitation care staff, health leaders have said.

More people are surviving strokes than ever before in the UK. But their hopes of getting better are being dashed because of a lack of physiotherapists and other specialist staff, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology.