{"id":550,"date":"2011-12-02T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jfprhc\/?p=550"},"modified":"2011-12-10T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:12:18","slug":"coc-vte-controversy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjsrh\/2011\/12\/02\/coc-vte-controversy-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"COC \/ VTE Controversy continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following publication of the extended analysis of the Danish Cohort Study on VTE risk (with combined  oral contraceptives with different progestogens and oestrogen doses) in the BMJ and the rapid responses since, Shapiro S and Dinger J have now produced a Commentary for the January 2012 edition of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare (JFPRHC). This is now published at <a href=\"http:\/\/jfprhc.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2011\/11\/29\/jfprhc-2011-100260.extract\" target=\"_blank\">BMJ Online First<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To accompany the commentary Anne Szarewski, Editor in Chief of the JFPRHC writes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>VTE and the  Pill &#8230; again<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The  re-analysis of the Danish Cohort Study has recently been published in the <\/em><em>British Medical Journal (BMJ).  Unfortunately, there are still many methodological issues with it, as discussed  in this commentary by Dinger and Shapiro. They also point out that the important  analysis that was actually requested by the regulatory authority (but not  published in the BMJ paper) showed no difference in risk between combined oral  contraceptives.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080\">FSRH Workforce Planning Committee<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Faculty has vacancies for 2 members on its Workforce Planning Committe (1 associate member and 1 diplomate, member or fellow). Details available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsrh.org\/pages\/TempPage.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080\">2 New Publications for Nurses <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">&#8211;<\/span> <\/span><\/h2>\n<h4>as reported by Wendy Moore, Vice Chair of the Faculty Associate Members&#8217; Working Group<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcn.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0006\/417489\/004134.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RCN Competences for nurses undertaking bimanual pelvic examinations<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Nurses working in sexual and reproductive health are increasingly  extending their role, benefitting both the nurses and their client  groups. The ability to carry out pelvic and bimanual examinations is now  a key requirement for nurses working in these specialisms in primary,  secondary and community care. The purpose of the competency framework is  to ensure that women requiring a pelvic exam are cared for safely and  that training and assessment processes are in line with local guidance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcn.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0003\/417495\/004122.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RCN Competences for nurses assessing and counselling women who request and\/or receive long-acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Aimed at sexual and reproductive health practitioners this new set of  competences is aimed at nurses who are assessing and counselling women  who have requested or received long-acting reversible methods of  contraception (LARC). The purpose of this competency framework is to  ensure such women are cared for safely and helps professionals to  identify their training needs, ensuring they have the skills and  knowledge to undertake the delivery of contraception services  competently and safely.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>And finally<\/strong><\/span> we hope that reports from America that Apple&#8217;s new voice recognition software, Siri, is anti-abortion are exaggerated &#8211; the &#8216;tech&#8217; giant says it will improve the software&#8217;s unintentional omissions so that it doesn&#8217;t say it cannot find abortion clinics.<em> Knowing the age we live in we suspect this &#8216;issue&#8217; will run for a while in blogs and tweets around the world.<br \/>\n<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following publication of the extended analysis of the Danish Cohort Study on VTE risk (with combined oral contraceptives with different progestogens and oestrogen doses) in the BMJ and the rapid responses since, Shapiro S and Dinger J have now produced a Commentary for the January 2012 edition of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjsrh\/2011\/12\/02\/coc-vte-controversy-continues\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7420,2599,1131,2583,2601,2600,2620,519],"tags":[2486,307,2654,2653,2656,317],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-practice","category-contraceptive-methods","category-guidelines","category-international","category-latest-research","category-media-reports","category-standardsclinical-governance","category-training","tag-clinical-practice","tag-contraception","tag-faculty","tag-guidance","tag-long-acting-reversible-contraception","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COC \/ VTE Controversy continues - BMJ Sexual &amp; 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