Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to complete the peer review of the systematic overview of reviews on the effective, safe and appropriate use of anticoagulation medicines undertaken by the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre; and when that final report will be published.

‘The effective, safe and appropriate use of anticoagulation medicines: A systematic overview of reviews' has been peer reviewed and was published in July 2018. It is available at the following link:

http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3733

The Department, NHS England and members of the Anticoagulants Advisory Committee, a group of external academic and clinician advisors with expertise in anticoagulation therapy, were consulted on the protocol. The Reviews Facility, which is led by the EPPI-Centre and includes the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, carried out the review independently. Amendments were made to the report following peer review.

The Department currently has no plans to hold a consultation on the findings.