Example of a health divide

We read with dismay Choi’s personal view about the difference between stroke treatment in London teaching hospitals and in Greater Manchester.1 In discussing the management of people with acute stroke in the hospital in which he works (Trafford General Hospital) he states that “the whole region is devoid of any concerted system to manage these patients.” He also says that “many of the consultants express confusion about their local thrombolytic service even where it exists,” and that if he …