Resources

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?

Do you use different approaches for patients with lymphoedema and chronic oedema? If so, it may be time to rethink says Rebecca Elwell.

Kate Upton describes compassion fatigue, an increasingly reported form of stress associated with the demands of nursing in the current NHS, and questions what can be done to overcome it. 
 

Jayne Livesey highlights the key goals and principles of delivering wound care at the end of a patient’s life.  

While many general practice nurses (GPN) are already used to managing patients with multiple comorbidities, the need for complex wound care that can accompany patients with long-term conditions is on the increase, and has been for some time. So is now the time for GPNs to become experts in wound care?

Andrew Sharpe discusses three of the clinical emergencies seen in the diabetic foot — peripheral arterial disease, infection and Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy (Charcot foot) — with the aim of enhancing knowledge and clinical skills in the management of diabetic foot disease.

We are all aware of staff shortages and the challenges they present to the NHS in all areas of practice.

At the Wound Care Today event in February 2019, three clinicians presented on the main stage for the first-time as part of an initiative offering support for first-time presenters. Here, they share their experience.