UK Stroke Forum 2025 | Highlights from UKSF 2025: insights from an attendee
Temitayo Roberts, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Freedom To Speak Up Guardian Lead, comments on the highlights from the UK Stroke Forum (UKSF) 2025 Conference, including the use of digital platforms to support stroke survivors in rehabilitation, and the focus on psychological support. This interview took place at the UKSF 2025 Conference in Aberdeen, UK.
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My name is Temitayo Roberts. I’m a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Lead for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Integrated Care Board and also a trained psychological wellbeing practitioner. So my highlight from the UK Stroke Forum so far has been how a lot of work has actually been ongoing in supporting stroke survivors and their carers in their rehabilitation especially in a very digital way because you probably might be aware of the NHS 10-year plan and the three main points one of them which is analogue to digital in terms of how the government wants all services to engage with digital in order to cut back you know the waiting list in the NHS and you know the use of the NHS app for GP appointments and all that...
My name is Temitayo Roberts. I’m a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Lead for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Integrated Care Board and also a trained psychological wellbeing practitioner. So my highlight from the UK Stroke Forum so far has been how a lot of work has actually been ongoing in supporting stroke survivors and their carers in their rehabilitation especially in a very digital way because you probably might be aware of the NHS 10-year plan and the three main points one of them which is analogue to digital in terms of how the government wants all services to engage with digital in order to cut back you know the waiting list in the NHS and you know the use of the NHS app for GP appointments and all that. So it’s good to hear from all the sessions that actually like enrolment for example you know a neuro rehabilitation online is ongoing. Now in the Cheshire Merseyside region it was first of all in the East Lancashire area so it’s good that it’s widening across the nation and people are able to utilize that to engage with therapy in a group format. Imagine for people who’ve had a stroke they’re able to use digital platforms as well as others in order to be able to engage in a group format, see other people who are also stroke survivors like themselves and being able to actually, to see that demonstrated in one of the sessions because we engaged with the stroke survivors themselves on the screen while we were in the room that was quite powerful. And the other thing that I’ve also enjoyed in one of the sessions I’ve attended so far is the amount of psychological support and the work that is being you know put into the rehabilitation and the recovery of people who’ve had a stroke and actually checking with them in terms of when we’re trying to support people, asking them, does the learning or the physio or whatever it is that we’re trying to support them with, does it make sense to them? Does it make sense for them? Because it might be that yes we want to work on their, help work on their mobility or their speech or it is actually what that person prefers to work on first that we should be considering and how to help them make sense of life and build that self-confidence again.
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