Many of you will doubtless be familiar with our Chief Social Worker for Adults Lyn Romeo’s blog where she regularly sets out her beliefs, values and objectives for advancing the quality, value and breadth of adult social work in England. Today, she publishes a new Safeguarding Adults Protocol for pressure ulcers. Their prevention or mitigation may not immediately […]

Welcome to the first Chair’s blog for 2018 written by the Tissue Viability Society Vice Chair, Heidi Sandoz ACT ONE SCENE ONE Cinderella, the NHS lonely daughter who provides wound care/tissue viability services, was feeling despondent at the end of 2017. For decades she had been trying to expand her service to ensure all patients […]

We recently partnered with Mediaplanet UK on the 2017 Wound Care Campaign in The Guardian newspaper and online #WoundCare #legsmatter Click here to read motivating insights from industry leaders and learn more about the importance of awareness for leg and foot conditions including ulcers.

Professor Jane Nixon has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Professor Jane Nixon has been a mainstay of the Tissue Viability Society for many years and is a former Chair of Trustees and Treasurer and the TVS are delighted that her ground-breaking research into pressure sores has been recognised. Click here to read […]