Practice-based Anticoagulant Services: saving costs or improving patient care?
These meetings are intended for UK Healthcare Professionals and have been developed in accordance with the ABPI Code of Practice.
PM Healthcare events are Quality Assured by the University of Bradford
Satellite | Practice-based Anticoagulant Services: saving costs or improving patient care? | |||
Speakers | Lynne Garforth (Director and Clinical Pharmacist Prescriber) | |||
Satellite Description | ||||
There are many different models of anticoagulation service provision in primary care with standards varying widely especially where non- specialists are managing patients. Pharmacists are ideally placed to help GP practices drive standards of care up when anticoagulating their patients but there may be a reluctance to invest. This session is designed to help pharmacists wishing to learn how they can build a case to provide a service or just get more involved in operating anticoagulation clinics in primary care. It may also appeal to those working in GP practices who could play a role in audit and review of their patient population. Objectives include:
There will be elements of clinical management on patients on vitamin K antagonists and DOACs. |