Outcome reporting

Admission and discharge scores on the validated instruments used, the treatments delivered with dose, complications, and the home programme issued, sent to the referrer after discharge.

Validated, published instruments chosen for the population and sensitive enough to detect change within a programme length: gait speed and distance tests, a balance scale, an upper limb subscale, and functional independence measures.

General independence scales alone miss change in the upper limb almost entirely, which is why a limb-specific measure is recorded alongside them.

Measurement at admission, at defined review points and at discharge, using the same instrument administered the same way. Reported as numbers with the instrument named, not as narrative descriptions of progress.

Where a measure did not change, the report says so. A report in which every measure improved is a report worth reading sceptically.

Aggregate success rates. Such a figure is defensible only with a fixed cohort definition, consistent measurement across centres and independent verification; without them it would be misleading.

We would rather say that than produce a number. Institutional partners asking for outcome data will get an honest account of what exists and what does not.