Dr Lara Roberts is a Consultant Haematologist and the Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) lead at King’s College Hospital. She established the programme for root cause analysis of hospital-associated VTE at King’s and continues to oversee VTE prevention practice across sites. She is a committee member of the British Society of Haematology Obstetric Haematology Special Interest Group and the Speciality Lead for the South London Clinical Research Network non-malignant haematology group.