Warfarin Management News and Views

Beacon Medical Practice improves patient care using a point-of-care coagulometer in the community
With around 600,000 people in the UK currently taking warfarin(1) many NHS trusts are moving anticoagulation clinics into primary care. Hospital-based services are often over-subscribed and this is set to worsen with the growing number of patients taking oral anticoagulation therapies (OATs), such [...]

On the 10th November 2009, UK NEQAS held a Near Patient/Point of Care Testing meeting in Sheffield. The subject of the meeting was Blood Coagulation and it was a very interesting event for all those who attended.
There were some especially good speakers and presentations given throughout the day so we’re really pleased that the abstracts are [...]

If you were unable to make the Lincolnshire Thrombotrack User Meeting, or you were interested in finding out what the outcomes were, then click through for a brief summary of the discussions that took place.

Are you interested in how INR testing can be performed in the community? Well here’s a great article detailing the experiences of how one lead anticoagulation practitioner and her team in Lincolnshire are doing just that!

Here’s a really useful link that we thought might be of interest to anyone managing patients on OAT and who are concerned with managing the associated risks.

We are holding a Thrombotrack user group meeting on Tuesday, 29th September 2009, for customers based in Lincolnshire

Find out how using Thrombotrack can help you manage your patients on warfarin cost effectively in the community

Welcome to our new Warfarin Management blog.  We’ll start posting news and articles of interest in the next few days and look forward to reading your comments.
If you want to start a discussion, all you have to do is to email us here in the editorial office and suggest a topic, or even write an opinion piece [...]