Angels Initiative
The Angels Initiative is a unique healthcare program that helps hospitals around the world implement best-practice acute stroke care practices to become ‘stroke-ready’ to treat patients as quickly and effectively as possible.
Through improving acute stroke care, Angels helps save lives and prevent catastrophic disabilities – improving the lives of stroke survivors and reducing the burden of stroke on individuals, families, hospitals, governments, and society.
The initiative was launched in 2016 and is run by Boehringer Ingelheim in partnership with the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and the World Stroke Organisation (WSO).
About Stroke in Australia
- More than 27,000 Australians will have their first stroke event each year3
- The number of Australians living with stroke will double to 819,900 in 20503
- Stroke caused 8,703 deaths in 20203
- Regional Australians 17% more likely to suffer a stroke3
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 1.3x more likely to die from stroke3
- The costs of stroke to Australian society, including Government, was $6.2 billion in 2020. 3
- Over half of eligible stroke patients miss out on treatments that reduce disability and death.2
About the Angels Initiative
The Angels Initiative is a healthcare intervention launched by Boehringer Ingelheim in partnership with the World Stroke Organization and European Stroke Organisation dedicated to improving stroke patients’ chances of survival and a disability-free life.
An estimated 7.5 million patients have been treated in over 7,500 Angels hospitals in more than 191 countries, including more than 1,400 new stroke-ready hospitals established across the world with the help of Angels.
References 1. AIWH. Heart, stroke and vascular disease: Australian facts. February 2023. 2. Stroke Foundation. National Stroke Audit – Acute Services Report 2019 3. Deloitte Access Economics, November 2022, Stroke Foundation Report: No Postcode Untouched, Stroke in Australia 2020