REGARDING the recent changes made to the local anticoagulant services, my sentiments are exactly similar to those of your correspondent Alan Burridge (Letters, May 24).
Having been a patient on Warfarin anticoagulant for the past twenty years, I have always found the service provided by this clinic at Poole Hospital, to be an exceptionally efficient and well run operation.
The former means of communication of INR blood tests and results, via the returnable ‘yellow book’, provided all the required information in one document.
To my mind, the changes that have been made have necessitated more ‘bumf’ to be produced by the hospital and filed by the patient.
These changes would appear to have been instituted by the NHS National Patient Safety Agency, the functions of which were transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board on June 1 2012.
Perhaps we are victims of yet another poorly thought-through scheme of Mr Lansley’s – more changes for change sake!
JOHN L ROBINSON, West Parley
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