Over 2 million people are living with unhealed wounds The PRSB has been commissioned by the National Wound Care Strategy Programme to develop a generic information standard that can help improve the assessment, prevention, management, and treatment of pressure ulcers, lower limb (leg and foot) and surgical wounds. There are currently over 2 million […]

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. […]

We were so pleased with the recent news that Impact Factor for the Journal of Tissue Viability had increased from 2.932 to 3.374. It is now ranked 13 out of 125 in the nursing category rankings (previously 15). As a Society, we are continually looking at ways to support and promote the Journal of Tissue […]

First of all, I want to thank the Society of Tissue Viability for the educational grant to attend the EPUAP 2022 in Prague. A great conference which provided me the opportunity to continue on my educational and professional development in the world of Tissue Viability. Despite pressure ulcers prevention measure in place, focus still remains […]

The National Wound Care Strategy Programme is addressing the unwarranted variation in UK wound care services, underuse of evidence-based practices and overuse of ineffective practices, to improve wound care healing and prevention for people and use NHS resources more efficiently. There is currently no recognised standard for a generic information record that can support the delivery of […]

On behalf of the Society of Tissue Viability and the Publisher, we would like to inform you that the current Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tissue Viability, Professor Dan Bader, is standing down from this role on 1st June 2022. We would like to thank Professor Bader for his hard work and immense efforts over the […]

When you are a nurse and you’ve been doing diabetic wound care for so many years, you think that you already know everything. When I attended the EWMA conference in France, I put an end to that thought. In fact, there is still a lot of learning that we need to explore to improve our […]