Stop the Pressure 2024

Pressure ulcers are a concerning and largely avoidable harm associated with healthcare delivery (NHS Improvement, 2018)

STOP the Pressure

The Society has been collaborating with The National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) and all #4nations for STOP the Pressure week over recent years with representatives from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are in the process of putting together some great resources for you, so please watch this space!

Theme

Our theme for 2024 is INCLUSIVITY – Are you really LOOKING, are you really LISTENING’ and we see this in the following way…

  • Might you need to adjust your communication style? – Consider the needs of your colleagues and patients when communicating. Everyone “hears” / learns differently
  • Might you need to adjust or simplify your messages? – Information can be overwhelming for many reasons and can be difficult to process
  • Might you need to consider your environment?  – Background / environmental constraints may be very distracting

When

International Stop the Pressure Day is Thursday 21 November.

We are also busy planning a week’s programme of activity from Monday 18 November to Friday 22 November – watch out for announcements!

Industry support for the campaign in 2024

Thanks to  Accora, Arjo, Essity, Drive Devilbiss, Isla Health and Medstrom who are all supporting our 2024 campaign

We’ve created a package for our industry supporters, email hello@societyoftissueviability.org if you’d like to get involved.

Let’s STOP the Pressure together!

Take a look how you can get involved

Meet the #4Nations team

Meet the people behind this year's Stop the Pressure 4 nations campaign

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#Stopthepressure 2024 downloadable assets

A range of assets to help you support this year's INCLUSIVITY – ‘Are you really LOOKING, are you really LISTENING’ #STOPTHEPRESSURE campaign

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What’s on during #Stopthepressure week

Join us for our fantastic FREE to attend online events taking place during #STOPTHEPRESSURE week

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Competition

Enter our Stop the Pressure competition to win registration and a travel bursary to the Society of Tissue Viability 2025 conference

Enter now…

Top Tips

We've developed a range of Top Tips to support our INCLUSIVITY #LOOKINGANDLISTENING #STOPTHEPRESSURE campaign

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Languages

A range of easy read Pressure Ulcer leaflets in a variety of languages for you to download

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Links and resources

A range of links and resources to signpost and help you support this year's #stopthepressure campaign

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Quizzes

Test your skills and knowledge

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Industry support

Thanks to Accora, Arjo, Drive Devilbiss, Essity, Isla Health and Medstrom for supporting the 2024 campaign

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Handy links

Looking for more inspiration? Check out what other organisations in the world of wound care have to help you #Stopthepressure

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Other STOP the Pressure Resources

We’ve uploaded all the assets we've created to our Resources section. Search on STOP the Pressure

Stop the Pressure 2023

Have a look at what we did in 2023

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