GPs pledge action on raising pill and DVT risk awareness
The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has pledged action to remind all GPs to be alert to the risks of the deep vein thrombosis on the back of an ITV News investigation into recent deaths linked to the contraceptive pill.
Dr Helen Stokes Lampard told ITV News the contraceptive pill provides an extremely safe and highly effective method of contraception, but that in rare cases where DVTs and pulmonary embolisms occurred, GPs needed to be alert to what the symptons were.
