Early Supported Discharge
An Early Supported Discharge (ESD) service provides ESD only to eligible patients. ESD is an intervention delivered by a coordinated, multidisciplinary team that facilitates the earlier transfer of care from hospital into the community and provides responsive (within 24 hours) and intensive stroke rehabilitation in the patient’s place of residence over a fixed, time-limited period (e.g. 6 weeks).
Community Rehabilitation Team/Service
A Community Rehabilitation Team / Service (CRT) is a multi-disciplinary team that provides community stroke rehabilitation to stroke patients requiring a lower level of intensity, condition, disability or case management. This may be following hospital discharge, after a patient has been discharged from an ESD team or at any point post stroke where rehabilitation needs are identified. The intensity or duration of this service is determined by patient need.
Stroke-specialist team or service
A stroke specialist team or service is defined as a group of specialists who work together regularly to manage people with stroke, and who between them have the specific knowledge and skills to assess and manage most stroke-related problems. This does not require the team exclusively to manage people with stroke, but the team should predominantly treat stroke survivors and have specific knowledge and practical experience of stroke.
A multi-disciplinary team (MDT) is composed of staff from different healthcare professions with specialised skills and expertise. The members work together in ensuring patients receive comprehensive, coordinated treatment.