Table 2.

Patient demographics. Local and regional patients admitted during the day, local patients admitted out-of-hours, and regional patients admitted out-of-hours during Phase 3. Inpatients, direct admissions from OPD and other hospitals (e.g. for carotid surgery or complex stroke) are excluded from this (n=78)

	Local 09:00–17:00	Regional 09:00–17:00	Local out-of-hours	Regional out-of-hours
Patients (n)	139	75	202	214
Age (median)	75	77	72	75 (not significant)
Men (%)	47	45.9	45.5	54.6
Time from stroke to A&E in hours (median)	3.530	2.88	3.730	1.850 (p<0.01)
Median LOS on hub stroke unit in days	6	6	6	6