Morbidity after a stroke affects at least 450000 people across England (Department of Health (DH),2006). In Wales, a third of people who have suffered a stroke are left with a long-term disability (Welsh Government, 2012). Stroke has a more devastating impact than any other chronic disease on
the health of the UK population, something that the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicated back in 2004, in their Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke