Thelma Clarkson

_ Prior to her fall, Mrs Clarkson has for some time been prescribed and was taking the drug Clopidogrel for her long-standing heart disease British National Formulary warns that patients taking Clopidogrel are at risk of increased bleeding from trauma. However , was told in evidence at the Inquest that under the NICE Head Injury Pathway which was in use at the time at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, had Mrs Clarkson been taking Warfarin she would have been sent to a larger hospital to have a CT scan of her head but the Pathway did not include Clopidogrel as a similar trigger for a CT scan notwithstanding the risk of increased bleeding head trauma: was also told that; had Mrs Clarkson been sent from Gosport War Memorial Hospital for a CT scan, there is strong_ possibility it would have revealed the extent of her head injury and her my War The The from treatment and its potential outcome may have been different: am therefore concerned that the NICE should consider whether its Head Injury Pathway should be amended to include taking Clopidogrel as a trigger for a CT scan in the same way as Warfarin presently does_