National Acute Stroke Services Audit 2023: Results

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 2–3 pm AEST

Presented by Melita Stirling, with guest panellists Professor Helen Dewey, Kelvin Hill, Lauren Pesavento and Lisa Yates

The National Acute Stroke Services Audit measures the quality of acute stroke care in hospitals throughout Australia. The 2023 results highlight where the system is working well and reports on areas where improvements or changes are needed.

In this webinar, you will have the opportunity to:

• Hear the 2023 audit results explained
  This webinar will present the 2023 Acute Stroke Services Audit results, and discuss next steps for acute stroke care in Australia.
• Ask your questions
  Our panel of stroke care experts will answer your questions and provide insight on current developments in acute clinical practice. Please list any questions you have on the registration form.
• Document your CPD
  CPD certificates will be available to attendees who wish to document their participation. Please fill in the CPD request post webinar
   

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About the presenter and panellists

Melita Stirling is the Stroke Quality Improvement Manager at Stroke Foundation and works to strengthen foundations of best-practice stroke care by enhancing organisational resources, engaging with health professionals and drawing on the voice of lived experience.

Melita has a background as a speech pathologist and brings her experience of working with stroke survivors in acute, rehabilitation and domiciliary services, to program design and delivery.

Professor Helen Dewey is the Non-executive Director representing interests of clinicians and Chair of the Stroke Foundation's Clinical Council.

A consultant neurologist and clinician researcher, Professor Dewey specialises in the area of stroke. Her interests include stroke epidemiology, health service improvement and acute stroke therapies.

She is currently the Clinical Director of Neurosciences at Eastern Health and Professor, Eastern Health Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne. She is also the current Chair of the Management Committee for the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR).

Kelvin Hill is the National Manager Clinical Services at the Stroke Foundation, where he oversees the development and implementation of the Australian Living Stroke Guidelines, the National Stroke Audit and other national clinical and policy activity.

Kelvin is also actively involved in national and international efforts to improve guideline methods and their implementation.

Lauren Pesavento is a Stroke Nurse Consultant working in hyper-acute and acute stroke at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Lauren has a strong interest in secondary stroke prevention and supporting health behaviour changes.

Lisa Yates is the StrokeLink Coordinator for Queensland. She has a clinical background as a speech pathologist across acute, subacute and community services in both Australia and the UK.

More recently Lisa has been working as an allied health team leader a for rehabilitation-in-the-home service, and in project management, health service performance reporting and health service improvement.