The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is recruiting for two lay members to join the NICE Prioritisation Board to bring a perspective of patients, people who use services, and carers to selection and routing of topics.

You do not need or personal knowledge or experience of every topic but should have a broad understanding of the issues important to patients and their families or unpaid carers.

Opportunity to become involved in the design of a UK study on the role of tranexamic acid in the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding in women anti-coagulated for a prior thrombosis.

If you are interested and keen to become involved, please email:

Managing anticoagulation after an operation

The ACUTE project team from Imperial College, London are developing a trial to look at ways to improve reducing the risk of blood clots after surgery.

They are keen to hear opinions and suggestions about this potential study through a short anonymous survey.

Your help in completing the survey would be appreciated.