Pippa Tyrrell, FRCP, Salford Royal Foundation Trust and University of Manchester; UK NICE Guidelines Development Group, Acute Stroke and TIA, London, UK.
Sharon Swain,PhD, National Coordinating Centre for Chronic Conditions, Royal College of Physicians; UK NICE Guidelines Development Group, Acute Stroke and TIA, London, UK.
Anthony Rudd, FRCP, St Thomas’s Hospital London; UK NICE Guidelines Development Group, Acute Stroke and TIA, London, UK.

JE Simon, MB, ChB, MRCP (UK), Calgary Stroke Program, Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
MD Hill, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Director, Stroke Unit, Associate Professor, Calgary Stroke Program, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences / Medicine / Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

James Kennedy, MB, MRCP(UK)
Clinical Stroke Fellow,
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

Alastair M Buchan, MB, FRCP
Professor of Stroke Neurology,
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.

"It is in the nature of stroke to partly take away the use of a man's limbs and to throw him on the parish if he had no children to look to."¹