London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) conveyance of FAST+ patients suspected of stroke

Conveyance information relating to patients attended to by the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) who were identified from the ambulance patient record as having a deficit on one or more of the face, arm and speech elements of the FAST test, and therefore suspected of having stroke.

Data includes the following aggregated for London:

Destination – percentage of patients taken to a hospital with a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) or to the nearest Accident and Emergency (A&E) department

Average response times for patients transported to a hospital with a HASU only.

Data source: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS)