Read the latest blog from Tina Chambers, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability & TVS Trustee, on how you can be a Pressure Ulcer Hero! Mirrors are an essential piece of equipment for those that care. They give you a super power and make you a Pressure Ulcer Hero. What does a mirror mean to […]

A personal account from Clare Greenwood, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Tissue Viability, Leeds Teaching Hospitals on being a key worker, post grad student, wife and mother Calmness can be skin deep… I never really thought of myself as an anxious person. Yes, I would replay some conversations over and over in my head, worrying that […]

This powerful insight into the effect of COVID-19 on the critical care workforce has been written by a TVS member who’s location and identity have been withheld to protect privacy. “We have practiced the technique of proning critically ill adults for many years and always approach this method from a multidisciplinary team approach, with a […]

Read the latest blog from Linda Primmer, TVS Chair & Community TVN, on strangers, family and friends helping key workers during COVID-19 I am sure, like me, you have been amazed by the generous support the British public has demonstrated for key workers across the UK during this challenging time. Within my immediate ‘wee world’ […]

Welcome to a guest blog written by Dr Leanne Atkin, Vascular Nurse Specialist, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust. Lecturer University of Huddersfield “It sometimes feels like I am in a parallel universe!  Society around me seems to be having extended holidays, family BBQs, street parties and days out at the beach. I am rather sick of […]

Read the latest blog from Tina Chambers, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability, on the importance of the 2020 TVS Trustee Elections “For the first time in many years the TVS is required to hold a ballot to elect our new trustees. Whilst we could have had an election each year, for as long as […]

Welcome to the TVS blog written by Natasha Levy, Senior Lecturer & Podiatrist at Department of Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield On 20th March the University of Huddersfield, like all other universities, closed its campus, whilst still continuing to support and teach students remotely via online lectures, chat rooms and webinars. So what? I hear […]

Read the latest blog from TVS Chair, Linda Primmer, who walked 88 miles through the Dordogne in 5 days: Figeac to Sarlat-la-Canéda via the Grande Randonnée 6 hiking trail (GR6) A great big ‘Thank you‘ to all those who have donated to date. I am amazed at people’s generosity to ultimately prevent and help those […]

Welcome to the TVS blog written by Jennifer O’Donoghue, Nursing Student at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, who was awarded an educational grant to attend TVS 2019 – The Conference in Southampton. How much do I really know about tissue viability as a student nurse? This is the question I asked myself as I prepared for […]

Welcome to the TVS blog written by Dr Una Adderley  PhD, RN, DN, QN  – Director – National Wound Care Strategy Programme          In 2014 I turned up for my first TVS trustee meeting. At that point I was only there as a co-opted member but despite the meeting being conveniently in my home town (I arrived […]