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Community Stroke Reviewers Monitoring Recovery Contact Details for the Community Stroke Review Service Telephone: 01865 857674 Email: [email protected] Fax: 01865 713987 Useful Websites and Telephone Numbers DGN - 00065/1 DECEMBER 2013 Produced by County Print Finishers. Tel: 01865 815672 • Fax: 01865 204309 This leaflet is available in other formats. Please phone 0845 050 7666 to ask for this. S199-04 (12/13) Monitoring your progress and guiding you along the pathway towards recovery www.stroke.org.uk The Stroke Association Helpline: 0303 3033 100 When it’s less urgent than 999 www.headway.org.uk Headway Helpline: 0808 800 2244 www.oxfordshire.gov.uk www.oxfordshireccg.nhs.uk/ www.oxoncarers.org.uk/
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CommunityStrokeReviewers
MonitoringRecovery
Contact Details for theCommunity StrokeReview ServiceTelephone: 01865 857674Email: [email protected]: 01865 713987
Useful Websites and Telephone Numbers
DGN - 00065/1DECEMBER 2013
Produced by County Print Finishers. Tel: 01865 815672 • Fax: 01865 204309
This leaflet is available in otherformats. Please phone0845 050 7666 to ask for this.
S199-04 (12/13)
Monitoring your progress
and guiding you along the
pathway towards recovery
www.stroke.org.ukThe Stroke Association Helpline:0303 3033 100
When it’s less urgent than 999
www.headway.org.ukHeadway Helpline: 0808 800 2244
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk
www.oxfordshireccg.nhs.uk/
www.oxoncarers.org.uk/
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What is a CommunityStroke Reviewer?
Community Stroke Reviewers providepersonalised information, advice & support forpeople affected by a recent diagnosis ofstroke.
Stroke Reviewers are qualified health or socialcare practitioners who can monitor patients’health and social care needs after their stroke– guiding them and their carers.
How do I arrange to talkto a Community StrokeReviewer?
When you are discharged home from hospital,the medical team will discuss the ReviewService with you and with your agreement,refer you to your local Reviewer. If you haveany concerns or wish to discuss somethingbefore your review is due, you can contact theservice - see details on the back of thisleaflet.
If you were not admitted to hospital at thetime of your stroke or you were treated orresiding outside Oxfordshire, please ask yourGP to refer you.
What can theCommunity StrokeReviewer do for me?
Your Community Stroke Reviewer will:
Review your progress six months afteryour discharge home. In somecircumstances review your progress sixweeks after your discharge home.
Link you with any services needed tofurther develop independence andchoice.
Provide advice and support onpsychological and social needs.
Provide a range of information to enableyou to understand the different aspectsof stroke and some of the associateddifficulties.
Provide information on local andnational support services.
Provide information and support forrelatives and carers.
Help you to find out about benefits andother financial matters.
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