FOI 25-144 Stroke Incidents
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-144 Stroke Incidents
- Request Date
- 06 Mar 2025
- Response Date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Information Requested
How many patients attended with the Chief Complaint of 'Stroke' and how many were conveyed to hospital on the last 10 years and of those how many was determined using FAST.
- Response
Please see the attached sheet detailing the Final Codes of Stroke including the following date ranges:
T2 - 01/01/2028 to 28/02/2025
T3 - 01/05/2024 to 28/02/2025
The Final code of Stroke give an accurate reflection of pre-hospital stroke care. It is worth noting that posterior strokes present differently so the clinical presentation doesn’t tend to have any effect on the face, arms or speech so FAST test is not as effective in these incidents.
Information has been provided from 2018 forwards as this is when the new reporting system has been implemented. Information of incidents pre-2018 has been exempt under section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 as information not held.
This information has been provided in two tables as a new clinical system is being phased in. This phased system has been in place since June 24 and involves only portion of Scotland. There is the possibility that that an incident from the Terrapace 3 system could be counted in the Terrapace 2 system and therefore the figures in the table should NOT be added together.
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as, five or less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
- Response Documents
