Antibiotic stewardship is a coordinated effort in healthcare to use antibiotics wisely—prescribing the right drug, right dose, right time, and right duration—to improve patient outcomes, prevent side effects, and combat antibiotic resistance,

Acute stroke services in the UK are organised around hyperacute stroke units (HASUs), where patients receive rapid specialist assessment and time-critical treatments such as thrombolysis and thrombectomy, reflecting the principle that “time is brain.” Not all hospitals have HASUs, so patients are initially assessed in acute stroke centres (ASCs) or local hospitals and rapidly transferred within integrated care networks to a HASU when required.