One of our Skin Care Champions, Jezel Figueroa Registered Nurse from Birmingham Jewish Community Care, Andrew Cohen House has reported a zero pressure ulcer month. No residents have a pressure ulcer. The home are very proud of this achievement and wanted to share this with you. Here are some lovely photos of their happy residents.

A new England-wide multi-professional framework has been published that sets out the knowledge and skills needed by all levels of the health and social care workforce to deliver high quality, consistent wound care across all settings, improving healing rates and patient outcomes. Launched by the National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP), the National Wound Care […]

The TVS Trustees are delighted to announce that Heidi Sandoz, Independent Tissue Viability Consultant, has been appointed as the Skin Care Champions Educator. The Skin Care Champions Programme & Network is the latest educational offering from the TVS and one which has won the prestigious Urgo Foundation Award. We look forward to working with Heidi on […]

2020 has been a year of challenge and change for us all and the TVS, like many organisations, has had to adapt the way it has worked in order to support it’s members and industry partners. Nevertheless, in spite of this, the TVS have made many achievements and here are just some of them… With […]

The Tissue Viability Society Trustees are excited and delighted to be the recipients of the prestigious Urgo Foundation award in support of of the Skin Care Champions Project. The TVS identified an opportunity to facilitate an online education programme and support network which will develop ‘Skin Care Champions’ in the Care Home and Home Care […]

There is very little information out there on the assessment of non-white skin but there is now a great new resource about the assessment of the lower limb in patients with black and brown skin called “Mind the gap”. Click here for more information

ActivHeal are committed to supporting Healthcare Professionals ensuring they select the right product not just the first time but every time. As part of this commitment they approached the Tissue Viability Society and were asked to review and endorse the higher level modules of the ActivHeal Multi Tiered Wound Care education programme. David Hibbitt (Global […]

The Tissue Viability Society are embarking on a Journey to the Centre of Mars (the Ruby Red planet) As part of our 40th Ruby Anniversary activities (strongly hampered by Covid-19), we aim to raise money to develop and deliver a programme of training and education to say a huge thank you to all our CARERS across the UK. So please […]

Read the latest blog from Joanna Swann, Lead Tissue Viability Nurse at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, on the challenges of Pressure ulcers (PU) in the proned Intensive Care patient “I won’t be the first to say we are in challenging times. Our work places are experiencing unprecedented changes that are testing all of us […]

Thanks to our TVS Trustees, Nikki Stubbs and Kate Williams for taking part in EWMA’s webinar where they answered your wound healing during COVID-19 questions. The discussions provided a great source of support for all Healthcare Professionals caring for those with wounds during this time. If you missed it on the day, don’t worry as […]