Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 32357

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 28 February 2025

Question

Mr Luke Charters

LabourYork Outer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) improvements in stroke care services and (b) the introduction of mechanical thrombectomy services at York and Scarborough Foundation Teaching NHS

Answer

Karin Smyth
There is no current plan to introduce mechanical thrombectomy for the acute treatment of strokes at the York and Scarborough Foundation Teaching NHS Trust. Thrombectomy is a specialist treatment that is only offered in a few tertiary centres across the co...

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