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Third and final SAFE Regional Conference held in Stockholm on 26th June
SAFE member organisations from North and South European clusters gathered on 26th June in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss the following items: A review of SAFE’s work, including the updating of its strategy and a discussion of its relationship with, and activities...
Grand Hero Day and Train the Trainer: Cherishing FAST HEROES 112’s success and welcoming new collaborators on board
FAST HEROES 112 is a stroke intervention that does not only educate children and their extended families to recognize stroke symptoms but also aims to enhance the relationship between children and their grandparents (or Grandheroes as we call them). To date, three...
PRESTIGE AF study is underway! First participant recruited
PRESTIGE AF is a €6.9m project, aimed at patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart condition which causes irregular and abnormally fast heartbeat, who have previously had a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain (termed intracerebral haemorrhage or ICH)....
Stroke Survivors’ needs in Norway: Problems start when local municipal takes over the rehabilitation
"The municipalities (in Norway) govern themselves regarding the economy and the government can’t earmark money to be used in the municipalities for each purpose. The municipal decides what they want to use the money for. And too often we see that there are no more...
Stroke Survivors’ Needs in Ukraine: Special needs of stroke survivors neglected both by society and government
This week we spoke with leaders of two SAFE member organisations from Ukraine, Prof. Liliya Zviagina, MD, PhD, President of the stroke support organisation ‘Victory over Stroke’ and Dmitriy Gulyayev, MD, PhD, Director of publishing and research projects, Medical...
Stroke Action Plan for Europe
