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Share your Story
Knowing that you are not alone, can make such a difference. Understanding what others have experienced and things that have helped – or challenged, along the way.
If you would like to offer your support by sharing your account you will be helping many, many other.
Simply write your account in an email or on a word document and email this to [email protected] ideally including with one or more photos.
Join Our Community
Thrombosis UK Closed Facebook page provides friendship, discussion, information and support to all those affected by venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Volunteer
Volunteering can be a one-off or a regular commitment – what best suits you.
Examples how a volunteer might help:
1. Share their story to help others.
2. Raise a voice for thrombosis.
Each year Thrombosis UK hold awareness campaigns. Press and media coverage is critical to increasing awareness to many 1000s of people.
Would you consider sharing your story and where you are based (region), so that we can include you on our bank of volunteers we could call upon if approached by a journalist seeking to include a newspaper, TV or radio article about thrombosis?
- Present and talk about their experience.
Are you a confident communicator and comfortable presenting to an audience? Local centres seeking to deliver educational sessions for healthcare professional (HCPs) often approach Thrombosis UK and ask if we may know of a person happy to share their experience of a blood clot to help HCPs understand this from a patient perspective and experience. If you would be willing to share and present, please email [email protected].
- Proof-read or review new resources.
- Consider being a patient representative on a research steering committee.
If any of these appeal to you or if you have a skill or idea you would like to offer as a volunteer to Thrombosis UK, please email [email protected]
National Thrombosis Week (NTW)
Hosted in the first full week of May, this is Thrombosis UK’s annual awareness week. With educational events, displays, and media activities to shine a light on thrombosis in the UK.
Everyone is invited to join in – share your story, contact your local radio station or newspaper to add NTW to their calendar, hold an awareness activity, distribute information, or join our educational meetings. Let’s work together to help everyone to #KnowThrombosis and #ThinkThrombosis, preventing harm and saving lives.
World Thrombosis Day (WTD)
A global event hosted annually on 13th October World Thrombosis Day (WTD) focuses attention on thrombosis. It embraces thousands of educational events across the world, and brings together in partnership patients, healthcare professionals, policy makers, research and industry supporters to place a global spotlight on thrombosis as an urgent and growing health problem.
The Date
WTD takes place every year on 13 October, this is the birthday of Rudolf Virchow who was a pioneer in the pathophysiology of thrombosis.