Nurse-led clinics. Nurse practitioners managing anticoagulant clinics.

A combination of factors resulted in the reconsideration of how the anticoagulant therapy service was offered at Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley. The reduction in available staff led to the introduction of a nurse managed service. This has improved the service by cutting waiting times. Anecdotal evidence suggests that patients value the service. Objective measures of blood results suggest that the nurse-led service manages the patients as well as the previous medically led service.