Stroke Sufferers

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. May I give an example that reaffirms what he is talking about and perhaps touches on a point made earlier about treatment being not a postcode lottery but an organisational matter? I am aware of a couple whose experiences were very diverse. The wife suffered a severe stroke and was admitted to a specialist stroke unit. After six weeks, she was discharged having made almost a total recovery, apart from some speech impairment. She had no further episodes. A short time later, her husband was admitted via an accident and emergency department to a geriatric unit and died two weeks later from a second stroke. Does that not exemplify what we are talking about in terms of organisation: one couple and one place, but two pathways and two outcomes?