Community stories

It was a proud moment for the team from Duitama Regional Hospital when they became pioneers in a telestroke programme in Colombia’s remote Boyacá region. The brainchild of Dr. José Luis Bustos of the University Hospital San Rafael de Tunja, this project is now notching up world-class treatment times and saving lives.

An Angels Award has sparked a stroke care improvement campaign across Ecuador and put two trail-blazing doctors on the podium to lead change.

These are the tipping points – actions that in themselves can seem insignificant, but from which great changes become possible. We celebrate four “small” interventions that made a BIG impact.

Transforming stroke management at his public hospital in northern Bogotá, Colombia, has moulded this neurologist’s vision of quality healthcare for all in a caring society. In a new interview Dr Claudio Jiménez explains what love’s got to do with it.

In order to make a positive change, we don’t only have to introduce new good habits, we also have eliminate some bad ones, writes Jan van der Merwe.

If you are still not treating your stroke patients at CT, take inspiration from four hospitals in Andalusia, Spain, where the question of WHERE to treat patients is answered by WHO.