Come to our annual conference and you can join our community and listen to live lectures, interviews and discussions, take part in workshops, visit industry exhibition booths, network with colleagues and speakers and join the live conversations during the sessions

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Day 1 – 18 May

Lomond Room – Main
Plenary Sessions

• 08.00 – Scientific Symposium from 3M – Let’s get back on track! – Negative Pressure Wound Therapy – Moderator: Fran Norman (was Spratt)   Speaker: Claire Porter
• 09.15 – Introduction to the Conference – Dr Jeannie Donnelly and Linda Primmer
• 09.45 – The National Wound Care Strategy Programme for England – Una Adderley
• 10.15 – The United Nations sustainable development goals and tissue viability practice – Professor Andrea Nelson

10.45 – Break

• 11.30 –  Making Legs Matter: How the campaign is making a difference – Sarah Gardner
• 12.00 – Venous leg ulcers – a standardised national approach – Jamie Cochrane, Alison Duncan and Drew Davidson
• 12.30 – Managing the ‘at risk’ foot in patients with renal disease – Joanne Casey

13.00 – Lunch

• 14.00 – How can we improve antimicrobial stewardship in wound care? Panel debate – Mr Andrew Seaton, Susan Cameron, Joanne Casey, Sharon Scattergood

15.00 – Break

• 15.45 – Assessing wounds for surgical site infection (SSI): a patient-reported tool for remote wound assessment – Dr Rhiannon Macefield
• 16.15 – Managing complex surgical wounds in a community setting. Perspectives from the acute and community sectors – Fran Norman (was Spratt)

Bell Room – Concurrent Sessions

• 11.30 – How to Inspire a new generation of Tissue Viability Nurses – Julie Hewish
• 12.00 – Education supporting the ambitions of the National Wound Care Strategy Programme – an update – Danielle Fullwood 
• 12.30 – How effective is virtual education in wound care? Using a matrix to measure the success of wound care education – Carol Jeffrey and Janice Bianchi

13.00 – Lunch

• 14.00 – Hidradenitis suppurativa – an overview – Dr David Fitzgerald
• 14.30 – A Nurse specialist’s perspective on the assessment and biopsy of wounds / skin lesions to gain a differential diagnosis – Karen Stephen
• 15.45 – Duty of Candour in wound care/pressure ulcer incidents – Elaine Farrell and Fiona Russell
• 16.15 – Diabetes and lower limb complications: a thematic review of clinical negligence claims – Nicole Mottolini

Bain Room – Concurrent Sessions

• 11.30 – Making sense of the evidence – workshop – Dr Clare Greenwood
• 12.15 – Make presenting your superpower – workshop – Sharon Neill and Sarah Rothwell

13.00 – Lunch

• 14.00 – How to run a successful wound care service using digital imagery and virtual e-clinic tissue viability support – Elaine Farrell, Fiona Russell and Sandra Stringfellow

• 14.30 – Dressings supply centralisation for wound care – Rosemary MacRitchie and Natalie Bowling

• 15.45 – Free Papers
  • 15.45 – Developing a wound care clinic within a homeless hostel and becoming a link for this client group when admitted to the Acute Hospital – Nicky Richardson
  •  15.57 – The knowledge and attitudes regarding pressure ulcer prevention among Healthcare Support Workers in the UK: a cross-sectional study – Liang Qin Liu
  • 16.09 – Impact of early recognition, prompt referral and high levels of compression to achieve excellent venous ulcer healing rates within a community clinic – Caroline Hughesdon
  •  16.21 – Trialling the role of a Children’s Pressure Champion – Sarah Sharpe
  • 16.33 – Ceci n’est pas une plaie’: on the difficulty of health system planning for wound care in Austria – Dr Raffael Himmelsbach

Day 2 – 19 May

Lomond Room – Main Plenary Sessions

• 08.00 – Scientific Symposium from Smith+Nephew – Don’t let hard-to-heal wounds hold you back – Kickstart Healing Now! – Moderator: Kate Williams  Speakers: Lauren Olenczuk and Jeanette Milne
• 09.15 – Pressure damage reduction at end of life – Dr Jeannie Donnelly
• 09.45 – Stop the Pressure: More than an awareness day – how to actively engage to make a difference – Jacqui Fletcher
• 10.15 – The importance of footwear in preventing pressure damage to the foot – Gill Sykes

10.45 – Break

• 11.30 – Self neglect and pressure ulcers – Kulvant Sandhu and Joanne Beresford
• 12.00 – Working with people living with wounds in homeless and inclusion health – Dr Jemell Geraghty
• 12.30 – Psychological factors in wound healing and how they could be addressed in clinical practice: ‘wound is where the light enters’ – Professor Dr Zoe Chouliara

13.00 – Lunch

• 14.00 – Person-centred moments – Kristina Mountain
• 14.40 – What keeps us doing what we love! – Anne Armstrong
• 15.10 – Close – Dr Jeannie Donnelly

Bell Room – Concurrent Sessions

• 08.00 – Sponsored Breakfast Symposium
• 09.15 – How nutrition impacts on cellular health – Beth Howard
• 09.45 – What is healthy eating for older adults in Care Homes? – Alison Smith
• 10.15 – The importance of nutrition in pressure ulcer prevention and management – Dove Yu

10.45 – Break

• 11.30 – Home and away: providing assessment, intervention and consultation to burns patients in NSW, Australia, using telehealth – Christine Parker
• 12.00 – Managing chronic burn wounds – Jacky Edwards
• 12.30 – Hypertrophic scar management – Jacky Edwards

Bain Room – Concurrent Sessions

• 09.15 – Easing the pressure for social care, what good looks like – Joyce Murray
• 09.40 – Multi-Agency: Reducing pressure ulcers in care homes in the Highlands – Jaime Smith and Elaine Farrell
• 10.05 – Managing skin tears in care homes – Kate Williams
• 10.30 – Skin Care Champion project – Heidi Sandoz

10.45 – Break

• 11.30 – Debridement techniques – Practical workshop – Gill Sykes and Joanna Swan