Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidance to NHS England on how clinical commissioning groups should assess local need for anti-coagulation services.

In 2013, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published an anticoagulation therapy services commissioning guide. This resource supports commissioners in reviewing how anticoagulation therapy is currently initiated, provided, monitored and reviewed in their local area with particular consideration to the introduction of the novel oral anticoagulants.

The guide can be found at:

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cmg49