Advanced Clotting Blood Test, from our experts to you.
Dr Sam Rodgers MBBS, MRCGPChief Medical Officer

What is an Advanced Clotting Blood Test?
Clotting blood tests can monitor people who have a condition that affects their clotting ability or who are taking anticoagulants (medications that decrease the ability of your blood to clot).
Some conditions can affect your clotting ability by preventing your blood from clotting, causing your blood to clot too easily, or causing blood clots to remain in your body for too long. Our advanced test also includes an FBC to assess your platelet count.
What can I learn from this test?
Our Advanced Blood Clotting Test evaluates the clotting tendency of your blood and the time it takes for clots to form. We use the standard measures of prothrombin time, APTT, and the International Normalised Ratio (INR).
What could my results mean?
A raised platelet count (clotting cells) may indicate an elevated risk of clots forming in your blood, while a low count may mean that you bruise easily or suffer from uncontrolled bleeding. In rare cases, low fibrinogen levels (a protein that aids in forming blood clots) may indicate excessive clotting, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Read more about the main functions of blood in our blog, what is blood and what does it do?