Welcome to INSPIRE
The INSPIRE strategy aims to improve neurological and stroke services by making specialist care more personal, proactive, and accessible, focusing on patient engagement, integration, and rehabilitation. It unites services for various neurological conditions and emphasizes collaboration, patient-centered pathways, and addressing inequalities through six key themes including clinical expertise, workforce readiness, communication, seamless pathways, research, and regional support, with delivery overseen by a transformation board and community involvement.
What is INSPIRE?
The INSPIRE strategy stands for Improving Neurological and Stroke services, Patient engagement, Integration and Rehabilitation. Our goal is to make specialist neurological care personal, proactive and easy to access and navigate.
It brings together services for people affected by neurological conditions like stroke, brain or spinal injury, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s.
It supports joined up working across services and teams with patient experience and collaboration at the heart of the strategy.
It guides and supports projects that improve effectiveness, patient experience and address inequalities.
We have spoken with patients, carers, staff, and partners to understand their lived experiences and are committed to improving services, based on what our community continues to tell us. We aim to provide clear, patient-centred pathways that span inpatient, acute, community, and support services and ensure patients access and re-access these services as they need them.
The INSPIRE strategy
We have identified six key themes that underpin the work of the strategy, these are:
1. Delivering Clinical Expertise When and Where It’s Needed
2. Building a Ready and Able Workforce
3. Strengthening Collaboration and Communication
4. Creating Seamless Patient Pathways
5. Cultivating a Culture of Research, Innovation and Improvement
6. Supporting and Strengthening the Region
How will we deliver the strategy?
The INSPIRE Transformation board will provide a space for staff and colleagues to share challenges and present ideas; oversee key projects and track progress and respond to national and regional policies, guidelines and programmes of work.
We will develop a community reference group for patients and carers to share feedback and work alongside us to help improve services.