Tissue Viability Service in Bolton

The Tissue Viability Team in Bolton provides a specialist service to patients with pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, traumatic injuries, superficial burns, abdominal wounds, dehisced wounds and complex non-healing wounds such as pyoderma gangrenosum or necrotising fasciitis. Bolton Tissue Viability Service is quite unique in that it provides a service for Bolton PCT and Bolton Acute Trust...

Can your trust afford not to employ a Tissue Viability team?

At a time when the demographics of the United Kingdom are changing as more elderly are living longer than ever before, the NHS is facing the reality that more patients with long term conditions and multiple co-morbidity will be requiring expert care for associated tissue viability problems...

Wirralwounds tissue viability service

The tissue viability service was first established in 1995 to provide equipment for private care homes. Today this has extended to all 360,000 residents of the Wirral in a variety of healthcare settings including private care homes...

Cost cutting in wound management is not cost effectiveness

Financial constraints in healthcare are necessary if the NHS is to provide a service but it is vital for the successful management of any service that both managers and clinicians work in partnership, says Pauline Beldon, chair of the Tissue Viability Nurses Association...

The silent epidemic

In a recent report commissioned by the Smith and Nephew Foundation , skin breakdown and wounds in the UK were described as the ‘silent epidemic’. Up to £3.1billion , 3% of the NHS budget , is currently spent on wound care management...

Seeking consensus

Although there are many consensus guidelines for the treatment of wounds available to practitioners in the NHS. The question is whether they are being implemented properly, reports Richard Mackillican

Although the quality of wound care services in the UK is good, one of the biggest problems facing those who work in wound care is a broad lack of agreement over antimicrobial treatment options.

“I think that there is a need for a single consensus wound care...