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Scottish team wins national award for improving the heart health of patients |
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Written by Rebecca Pegg
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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 The Dundee Community Anticoagulation Service took home the Cardiac Care/Omron Healthcare UK Award at the Nursing in Practice Awards 2008 (see www.nursinginpractice.com/awards).
The nurse-led Community Anticoagulation Service now established in Dundee City has been instrumental in shifting the emphasis from care and monitoring delivered by hospital services to one of care being delivered to patients in or near their communities.
The service provides “one-stop” community clinics in which patients have capillary blood sampling, INR measurement (with the result given immediately) and dosage advice, in a single consultation. Dosage advice is undertaken with a computerised support system, which suggests a dose based on the patient’s current and previous results.
The aim of the service is to provide a sustainable, safe, community-based near-patient anticoagulation monitoring service for stable anticoagulated patients that will:
· Produce optimum management of INR control, decreasing the risk of a thromboembolic event and bleeding complications by maintaining patients at their target level of anticoagulation therapy.
· Enhance care of the patient receiving warfarin therapy by providing a “one-stop” service in which the INR measurement, dosing advice and other necessary actions are completed in a single consultation.
The Nursing in Practice Awards were launched to recognise best practice in a range of clinical areas. The Awards featured ten categories in total.*
Individual nurses and teams across the UK submitted written accounts of their projects, which were then shortlisted by panels of expert judges.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 December 2008 )
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