by Lauren Chaloner | May 12, 2023 12:22PM | Campaign - Stroke
A UK-wide charity has made young people feel validated through its peer support group aimed at tackling loneliness in stroke survivors. Different Strokes is an organisation that connects young people across the country, including Yorkshire, through their shared...
by Lauren Chaloner | May 12, 2023 11:53AM | Campaign - Stroke
A teacher has voiced her support for a health campaign backed by Yorkshire charities after being sent home by doctors despite suffering a “life-threatening” stroke. In August 2021, Manchester teacher, Lili Vachon, 27, thought her contact lens had slipped after...
by Jack Trethewey | May 12, 2023 11:08AM | Campaign - Stroke
Young stroke victims face a “shocking” wait of more than 90 minutes for an ambulance. Georgia Hanson, 20, suffered a stroke in Pontefract when she was 19. She said: “It is shocking to hear that waiting times for an ambulance for someone suffering a...
by Josh Barron | May 12, 2023 11:05AM | Campaign - Stroke
Nine years ago, Rebecca Merritt embarked on what she thought would be the happiest day of her life, the birth of her first child. Yet what transpired in the following 24 hours was traumatic rather than joyful, and it would only be three months later that doctors would...
