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Latest news
Stopping
a blood clot when in hospital
Lifeblood: The Thrombosis
Charity has produced a new poster and leaflet highlighting the steps that
can be taken to reduce the risk of a deep vein thrombosis – otherwise
known as a DVT,
or blood clot – while in hospital.
Being in hospital increases the risk of a DVT, particularly for someone having abdominal operations, or orthopaedic surgery on the hips or legs. Lifeblood advises anyone entering hospital to speak to the medical team beforehand about the risk of thrombosis, and the poster and leaflet provide useful information about risk assessment, as well as what questions to ask.
Click here to download the poster (pdf format)
Click here to download the leaflet (pdf format)
Helping
yourself towards a healthy heart and circulation
This new guide from Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity and Heart UK, the Cholesterol Charity, gives information on how to maintain a healthy heart and circulation through diet and exercise.
It looks at the links between thrombosis, heart disease and stroke and how these can be prevented by eating a healthy, balanced diet and taking regular exercise.
Click here to download a copy (pdf format)
National
Thrombosis Week
7–12 May 2007
National Thrombosis Week will take
place from 7–12
May 2007. If you would like to support Lifeblood during National Thrombosis
Week,
or for more information, please email
us.
Lifeblood welcomes new Department of Health VTE website
12 December 2005
Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity has welcomed the launch of a new government website on venous thromboembolism (VTE). The VTE site was launched by the Department of Health in December bringing together, for the first time, all its VTE resources in one place. The new website covers the work of the Government, the Health Select Committee and other Governmental and non-Governmental bodies in the fight against VTE.
Until this website was launched if the public wanted to
know more about the Government's views on thrombosis, how it was tackling
VTE or what it thought about DVT, they had to trawl hundreds of pages to find
this out.
Lifeblood participates in Parliamentary
Dinner about Thrombosis
3 November 2005
Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity recently took the case for the full implementation of the Health Select Committee's recommendations on preventing deaths from thrombosis in hospitals to Parliament. At a special dinner hosted by John Smith MP, the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Thrombosis, Lifeblood's medical director Dr Beverley Hunt, discussed with leading Parliamentarians how to stop an estimated 25,000 people from dying from blood clots in hospital each year.
With Parliamentarians from every part of the United Kingdom
represented around the table this dinner boosted Lifeblood's ongoing campaign
to build further cross-party national support for the campaign against VTE.
Lifeblood welcomes the Government
response to Commons' VTE Report
1 August 2005
Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity has cautiously welcomed
the publication of the Government's response to the House of Commons Health
Select Committee inquiry into VTE in hospitalised patients. The Government
fully accepted the recommendations of the Health Select Committee in highlighting
VTE as a major killer in our nation's hospitals.
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Lifeblood backs Parliament's push to 'Stop the Clots'
8 March 2005
Lifeblood: The Thrombosis Charity has praised an All Party Parliamentary Health Select Committee Report recommending preventative measures for the development of venous thrombosis in patients, following surgery and during, or just after, hospital stays.
The Report, published on 8 March, sets out guidelines
that could help prevent tens of thousands of known thrombosis-related deaths
in the UK each year.
Full story...
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