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Huw Rowswell, MSC

Nurse Consultant
University Hospital Plymouth NHS trust
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Huw Rowswell MSc Consultant Nurse thrombosis, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Huw trained in London and initially worked in respiratory medicine before moving to critical care, he relocated to Plymouth helping set up the acute care team in there. He joined the Plymouth thrombosis team in 2009 when it became an VTE exemplar centre.
He became a nurse consultant in 2016 with responsibility for investigating hospital acquired VTE giving real time feedback to clinicians, looking at hospital acquired VTE by speciality and runs a clinic looking at the need for long term anticoagulation post thrombotic event. He completed his MSc with a dissertation on VTE in cardiac surgery comparing emergency with elective patients and has published many articles on VTE outcome data. He was appointed the hospital VTE lead and chair of the thrombosis committee in 2020.
He is the vice chair of the nursing committee for the ISTH as well as the treasurer for the British Society for Haematology.

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