The primary goal the Economic Impact of Stroke in Europe, a study by a health economics team from the University of Oxford, is to increase the priority given to stroke and to reinforce and underpin the influencing of European and country-level policy work already underway as a result of the Burden of Stroke Report published in 2017. 
Stroke is responsible for 9% of all deaths each year in the EU and it is also the largest cause of adult disability. Total costs for stroke were estimated at €64 billion across Europe in 2010 and yet it is hugely under-funded in comparison to other chronic conditions. Recent modest improvements in acute care mean that more people are surviving stroke, but with impairment, and the consequence being that we have a major health economic and social burden catastrophe waiting to happen. This will severely impact all EU countries, but especially those where inequalities in stroke healthcare are already known.
This research will:
-	Provide a breakdown of the analysis for each country into direct healthcare, direct non-medical and indirect costs. 
-	Develop projections of these stroke costs for the next 10 years and 20 years, based on scenarios of likely changes in the demography and epidemiology of stroke as narrated in the Burden of Stroke report.
-	Develop recommendations on how best to reduce the economic impact of rising numbers of stroke. 
The report will be used to help build a case for investment in different areas of the stroke care pathway.

STROKE ALLIANCE FOR EUROPE COMMISSIONED A NEW RESEARCH PROJECT: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF STROKE IN EUROPE