Table 3

Selected items from the organisational audit for the 157 trusts participating in both audits

	Compliance with standard
	1998 (n=164 sites)		1999 (n=157 sites)
Standard	Sites	%	Sites	%
There was some variation in the number of sites per trust between audits and this explains the slight difference in denominators.
Median change for all 38 organisational audit items: +2%.
Median change for selected items in table 3: +10%.
Specialist team for stroke	75	46	89	57
Consultant with responsibility for stroke	104	63	116	74
Agreed assessment measures for conscious level	108	66	135	86
Agreed assessment measures for motor impairment	61	37	84	54
Agreed assessment measures for cognitive function	106	65	127	81
Established links with patient carer organisations	70	43	89	57
Community user group	97	59	104	66
Specialist continence advice available on all wards	111	68	115	73
Specialist nursing advice on pressure care available on all wards	124	76	130	83
Practice guidelines on swallowing on all wards	90	55	91	58
Social worker attends team meetings on all wards	37	23	39	25
In house education programme for qualified staff	53	32	65	41
Single set of notes for all professions	25	15	39	25
Team meetings at least every 2 weeks on all wards	37	23	37	24