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What a busy year it has been for wound care in the UK,
with the European Wound Management Association
(EWMA) conference in London this year showing
just how far UK nurses and clinicians have
come in making tissue viability a specialty
that demands attention. It has also been an
exciting year for the Wound Care Alliance UK,
with our own annual conference continuing
where it left-off last year, with an event that
highlighted all the good work being done by
wound care clinicians right across the UK.
Wound care is changing as the population changes — increasing
amounts of older people, more patients with long-term conditions
and government initiatives aimed at getting people out of hospital
mean that more wound care than ever will be taking place in the
community. To reflect this, and keep up to date with current trends
in practice, this supplement takes a look at some of the essentials
of community wound care. First of all, Jackie Griffin investigates the
community hospital and how it is increasingly becoming a resource
for wound care patients; Rosie Callaghan and Jola Merrick examine
the relationship between dementia and wound care; and finally, I look
at best practice in palliative wound care and how this will increasingly
become part of the community nurse’s role in the future.
The Wound Care Alliance UK want you to have the best tools
possible to do the best job you can for patients, and we hope that this
supplement will help you through one of the biggest transitions ever
seen in UK healthcare — the move from secondary to primary care.
Jackie Stephen-Haynes, chair of the Wound Care Alliance UK
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i Contents
Jackie Griffin
Rosie Callaghan, Jola Merrick
Jackie Stephen-Haynes
JCN supplement 2015,Vol 29, No 5 3
Journal of Community Nursing
EDITORIAL
Acknowledgement:
The Wound Care Alliance UK would like
to thank all its members for their support.
Please remember, members’ feedback is always
appreciated. Finally, a very big thank you to all
Wound Care Alliance UK trustees for all their
hard work, passion and commitment, which is
always evident.