Project:

Development and Assessment of Services for Hyper-acute Stroke (DASH)

From August 2007 to July 2012
Project Leader(s): Professor Gary Ford (IAH), Professor Richard Thomson, Professor Martin White
Contact: richard.thomson@ncl.ac.uk
Sponsors: NIHR Programme for Applied Research Grant
Partners: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust, Institute of Ageing and Health, Northumbria Healthcare

The aims are to identify the optimal organisation of pre-hospital and acute stroke care and to improve outcomes for stroke patients by enhancing the evidence base for future health service interventions.  There are four main areas.

DASH I - seeks to increase the awareness of, and response to, symptoms of stroke by the public, patients and health service staff.  

DASH II seeks to determine the views of clinicians, patients and their relatives/carers about the risks and benefits of hyper-acute treatment for stroke and how best to support decision-making.

DASH III seeks to model and implement services to deliver thrombolysis

DASH IV seeks  to determine the feasibility of paramedic-delivered hyper-acute stroke treatments and trials.

Staff

Dr Stephan Dombrowski
Research Associate

Professor Martin Eccles
Professor of Clinical Effectiveness

Jan Lecouturier

Joan MacKintosh
Research Associate

Dr Peter McMeekin
Senior Research Associate (Health Economics)

Dr Falko Sniehotta
Reader in Health Psychology

Lynne Stobbart
Senior Research Associate and Shared Decision Making Facilitator

Professor Richard Thomson
Professor of Epidemiology & Public Hlth

Professor Martin White
Professor of Public Health