01 June 2016

Surrey Medicines Commissioners Group

Surrey Medicines Commissioning Group recommend that patients prescribed all types of anticoagulants (warfarin and NOACs) should be given an anticoagulant alert card to carry with them. For patients taking NOACs, the card should be annotated on the reverse in the “Therapeutic range (INR)” box with the words “not applicable” or “not required for this drug”. The cards are available for practices to order through usual NHS stationery supply routes. See an example of the Anticoagulant Alert Card in the document below

31 July 2013

Surrey & North West Sussex Area Prescribing Committee (formerly Prescribing Clinical Network)

The PCN does not routinely support the prescribing on FP10s of INR test strips for self monitoring. If an individual patient is considered appropriate for self testing of INR levels, it is the responsibility of the clinician managing the patient’s INR and warfarin dose to agree how the governance is assured and how strips are supplied