Increasing general practice opening hours could prevent recurrent strokes

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 03:56 in Health & Medicine

Increasing general practice opening hours would improve the opportunity for assessment and urgent referral to specialist care of patients with a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke, which could prevent over 500 recurrent strokes a year in England alone, concludes a study published on bmj.com today.

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