Resources

The delivery of wound care in the current climate is challenging so effective solutions are more important than ever. It is vital that you are aware of the latest products and innovations that have the potential to improve outcomes.

If you have patients on your caseload with long standing wounds, it is likely that biofilm is the cause. Here, we present AQUACEL^® Ag+, an innovative dressing range that has been specifically designed to disrupt and destroy biofilm to help progress hard-to-heal wounds.
 

Kate Upton, registered adult nurse and fellow of the Higher Education Academy; representative for Nursing Professions on the Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society; independent nursing/medical tutor and medical writer; PhD student at the University of Birmingham

Welcome to Wound Care Today; the place for you to share your successes and concerns and learn about what is happening in wound care, globally, nationally, locally, politically and clinically.

Alison Schofield asks if tissue viability is in crisis, and explains how WCT and TVN2Together aim to offer support.

Rachel Reece describes the development of educational resources to support 140 link workers in the efficient delivery of wound care across a large 1200 bed acute trust.

Do you find it difficult to appropriately reposition patients with complex needs using traditional pressure-relieving products? A lateral tilt pressure care mattress may be the answer to your problem.  The OSKA Series5 lateral tilt pressure care mattress uses an alternating air and foam combination to provide both comfort and support to people with pressure ulcers. It is suitable as an aid in the prevention, and treatment of, pressure ulcers up to and including category 4.

Una Adderley gives an update on progress of the NWCSP to date.

Lorraine Jones describes how dressing spend was increasing year on year at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, and in order to drive efficiency, procurement of dressings was switched from supply chain to ONPOS. The process and outcomes are described.
 

Alison Hopkins MBE questions why, as a profession, nurses are allowing the normalisation of non-healing leg ulcers, and why proven treatments are still not being used to maximum effect. 

Libby Gray asks can technology help to standardise the collection and documentation of wound measurement data?