• The financial and service burden to the NHS from caring for patients with wounds is increasing year on year
• Healing rates are declining, despite clear evidence-based guidelines.
• The impact of covid on wound care is yet to be assessed
• There needs to be a change in the culture and practice to tackle the growing issues

• How would this affect your clinical management?
• How would this impact on the system of care and reporting in your trust?
• How would this challenge the culture of community nursing?

• Kate Williams will share how the implementation of a clinical pathway has had a positive impact on managing wound infection.
• Why a wound infection framework/pathway was necessary
• Decision-making in developing pathway and measuring its impact
• Outcomes
• The importance of leadership in implementing a framework

• To examine whether people with dark skin tones are more likely to have higher staged pressure ulcers
• To explore some of the differences between the cause of pressure ulcers amongst people with dark skin tones and those with light skin tones
• To explore student and academic nurse perceptions of classroom content about the assessment and identification of pressure ulcers across skin tone diversity
• To describe the impact of classroom content on student nurses' understanding of people with dark skin tones

• Patients with either a plaster cast, woundcare dressings, compression dressing or PICC line can confidently and safely have a shower or bath without getting their dressings or casts wet by wearing a LimbO waterproof protector
  
• Having a shower or a bath for patients with long-term limb conditions, such as leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers or other skin conditions helps maintain good hygiene and quality of life, using the LimbO waterproof protector during the duration of the treatment and recovery
  
• The LimbO waterproof protector avoids clinicians having to replace plaster casts or change patients woundcare dressings after getting them wet while trying to shower or bath. This helps to avoid unnecessary costs and waste of nursing time

• Understanding the importance of appropriate wound bed preparation
• Addressing challenges such as the presence of devitalised tissue; delayed wound healing; the presence of wound bioburden, exudate and pain
• Promoting wound cleansing and removal of devitalised wound tissue in poorly healing or infected wounds via autolytic debridement
• Looking at clinical studies of hydro-responsive wound dressing on hard-to-heal wounds

• Accelerate have some of the fastest wound healing rates in UK clinical practice, but we know that there is more to wound and lymphoedema management than the medical intervention
• The wider determinants of health (Dalgren and Whitehead) affect a person's ability to engage with health professionals and wound and lymphoedema treatment plans, so must be acknowledged
• Accelerate takes an alternative approach to acknowledge this challenge, and works to build agency for change within our organisation, and to spread the word to other professionals through our Academy, our dressings optimisation scheme and through national leadership to challenge practice
• In 21-22, the Accelerate patient group led a unique project the wishing well, this session will share our learning from it

Sponsored by Accelerate CIC

• Venous eczema is a clinical manifestation of venous hypertension
• Venous eczema is commonly miss diagnosed and inappropriately managed
• This session will provide details on how to recognise and treat venous eczema effectively
• Venous eczema requires treatment with appropriate topical preparation plus strong compression

Sponsored by H&R Healthcare

• Dr Neesha Oozageer Gunowa, Pathway Lead in Community Nursing, University of Surrey
• Luxmi Dhoonmoon MSc, RGN, Queen’s Nurse, Nurse Consultant Tissue Viability (Goodall), Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)

• Describes the inflammatory response and its connection to wound pain
• Understand how PolyMem dressings play a part in the above process
• Think about other ways PolyMem can support managing painful wounds (eg gentle debridement)
• Provide an overview of the dressings in the range to simplify dressing selection and choice

*Programme subject to change