Nirjay Mahindru interviews Professor Anthony Rudd, one of the UK's former leading clinician on stroke. Anthony Rudd was Professor of Stroke Medicine at Kings College London, Consultant stroke physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the National Clinical Director for Stroke for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
He ran the stroke programme producing national stroke guidelines and the national stroke audit since 1995.
His research interests are stroke rehabilitation, organisation of care and quality improvement with over 300 peer reviewed publications.
He was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013. This interview was recorded in May 2020 during the lockdown period.