NEWS & EVENTS

It is a privilege to be taking up the post of UKNG Chair. I have been a member since 1998 when there were only about 30 INRs in the country, and only 80 DNRs. How we have grown!. There are many challenges facing us, principally around thrombectomy, staffing, and future growth. Dr Lenthall has been a superb chair, and I look forward to carrying on his good work.

I am a full time INR (and DNR) consultant at Charing Cross Hospital (part of Imperial College NHS trust) and am part of the thrombectomy on call rota, which has now been running for 3 years, without a single day of downtime. I’m told we are the longest such service in the UK.

Prior to my appointment in 1999, I trained in INR at Manchester, and Radiology in Cambridge, and before that was a Med Reg and SHO in Stoke-on-Trent, House jobs in Brighton and Guys Hospital. . A fairly broad UK experience which I hope allows me to say that I realise that one solution does not fit all and that as a group we should aim to deliver, maintain and audit a full INR service throughout the UK.