Consultant Stroke Physician

at  Swansea Bay University Health Board

You will participate in providing care for a 24 bed Stroke unit along with the existing consultantworkforce. In addition, you will support all aspects of stroke care. Morriston provides mostly acute stroke service for Swansea and Neath Port Talbot area. The inpatient sub-acute stroke care andrehabilitation is provided in N&PT Hospital.
All acute stroke patients from Swansea and most of thosefrom the Neath Port Talbot area are admitted to Morriston Hospital via ambulance protocols or self presentation to ED. There were approximately 700 new acute stroke admissions to Morriston in 2016. Morriston is the most active thrombolysis centre in Wales with average thrombolysis rate around 22%. A full multidisciplinary team and therapy area are based on the acute stroke unit where daily multidisciplinary team meetings are held.
Stroke Physicians and senior staff in each discipline takeactive role in delivering the best possible care to their stroke patients including thrombolysis delivery. They also work very closely with the families to make sure they are better supported and discharge planning successfully arranged. In addition to inpatient work as above, Morriston provided rapid access TIA clinics for swift assessment, investigation, and management of those presenting with TIAs. This service managed approximately 750 patients in 2016.
The workload is distributed evenly between all the colleagues in the department with an average of 4 new patients per TIA clinic. The new appointee is expected to cover one TIA clinic (4-5 patients per clinic) along with a stroke follow up clinic (approximately 8 patients per clinic, 2 news/6 follow ups)

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