02 June 2025 Blogs Understanding Standards for Beds and Mattresses: Pressure Care Devices Flammability Safety Criteria Introduction From a procurement perspective, what should be specified within the description of the relevant flammability criteria for selection of a pressure care device? The answer is that there’s no simple answer, and it all falls back on ‘risk’. Even that is not straightforward since often we have a range of external (that are external […] Full story
02 June 2025 Blogs Understanding Standards for Beds and Mattresses: Bed Rails and the Risk of Entrapment On the 3 May 2020, Max Dingle, an 83 year old retired police officer, died in hospital after he became entrapped between side rails and the mattress. The coroner concluded that “Mr Dingle’s death was an avoidable accident”. Sadly, the cause of this gentleman’s death is not an isolated occurrence. The MHRA continued to receive reports […] Full story
02 June 2025 Blogs Understanding Standards for Beds and Mattresses: Whose job is it anyway? When Everyone Thinks It’s Somebody Else’s Job A familiar scenario: a contract adjudication group (Everybody) is asked by the tender management team (Somebody) whether the standards listed in a bed and mattress contract are current and accurate. Everybody assumes Somebody will know. Somebody assumes Everybody must know. Anybody vaguely recalls something about fire safety and […] Full story
18 July 2024 Research Skin care types, frequencies and products: A cross-sectional study in German institutional long-term care. 33 (2024) 318–323 Skin care types, frequencies and products: A cross-sectional study in German institutional long-term care. 33 (2024) 318–323 Ruhul Amin , Bettina Volzer , Monira El Genedy-Kalyoncu, Ulrike Blume-Peytavi, Jan Kottner The background to this study was based on the physiological changes that occur during aging and which effect multiple organ systems through different biological processes. […] Full story
06 March 2024 Blogs, News update Don’t be scared to be an international nurse – everyone has their place in the team! Name Ines Alexandra Esteves Sadoc Pereira Day job: Nurse Consultant in Tissue Viability, supports London Southbank University with post graduate wound care education. Current SoTV role: Part of the Associate Forum Q1 – When did you realise you wanted to specialise in tissue viability? Since I was a student nurse I had an interest in […] Full story
15 January 2024 News update Don’t miss out on opportunities because it’s out of your comfort zone. Grab life and enjoy it to the fullest! Name Sharon Scattergood Day job Matron for Tissue Viability at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Current SoTV role Trustee Q1- When did you realise you wanted to specialise in tissue viability? This did not happen for several years as I was very happy working on a general surgical ward with all the variations in surgical […] Full story
29 November 2022 News update Skin Care Champions We are delighted to announce that the Society will be running the 3rd Skin Care Champions Programme starting in May 2023. Skin Care Champions was created to provide people working in care homes and home care agencies with a trusted programme of cost-effective and easily accessible education and support for skin health and wound healing. […] Full story
