Case Study: East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust achieves faster stroke triage and safer remote care with Visionable

East of England celebrates ten-years of better stroke care with Visionable

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust worked with the East of England Stroke Telemedicine Partnership to improve urgent stroke assessment across a large, rural region where long travel times, limited specialist cover, and the need to make fast treatment decisions made timely care difficult. The team needed a way to bring consultant expertise to patients at local hospitals and, later, to ambulance crews assessing possible stroke symptoms.

Visionable provided video telemedicine technology, including bedside carts and iPad-based access to its platform, so stroke consultants could see and speak with patients, base teams, and ambulance clinicians in real time, review scans, and guide treatment decisions remotely. With Visionable, the service assessed 4,185 patients, thrombolysed 1,788, achieved a median door-to-needle time of 46 minutes, reduced unnecessary hospital conveyance for stroke mimics, and was estimated to save the NHS around £470,000 a year.

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Raj Shekhar

Consultant