Based in East London, Accelerate provides complex wound and lymphoedema services across London and the South East alongside the national Accelerate Academy and Accelerate Dressing Optimisation Scheme. Alison is a founder member of Accelerate CIC, a spin out of the NHS in 2011 and has been in the tissue viability nursing specialism since 1989. Her passion remains the creative use of compression therapy within leg ulcer management and the impact on safety for patients and the community workforce due to sub-optimal use. She continues to successfully raise the profile of complex wounds and lymphoedema within the long term conditions agenda and is driven to support Accelerate and partners to deliver system change for this marginalised community.