Thromboembolism propaganda from HMG

The government is trying to convince us of the massive threat of venous thrombembolism (VTE), for some reason the threat of deep vein thromboses and pulmonary emboli has been hyped up beyond all proportion in recent years. Sometimes myths get propagated from nowhere as no one has bothered to check the actual facts from scratch, in my opinion this is the case with venous thromboembolism. This is a