“Much of the work of care assistants and nurses involves listening to, and piecing together the stories of patients, especially stroke victims, the threads of whose stories have been broken and need splicing together again. All interactions with carers habitually contribute toward this process; all listening and storytelling is an invaluable part of this work: a single word can bridge the gap – as you already know… Bringing a guest storyteller onto the Unit this summer has been a highlight in some of the patients’ experiences of recovery, and it would be useful to explore the possibilities of initiating a new project with staff first, so as to integrate patients’ experience with their carers”