Collaboration not silos: How everyone’s contribution makes a difference to wound care
We believe that skin health and wound healing is everyone’s business and that change happens when we work together, not in silos
We are delighted to be the partnering organisation for #EWMA2024 and will have a fantastic 1 day stream
When and where?
Thursday 2 May 2024, 8.30am – 6.30pm, Platinum Room 5, 6 & 7, ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
Title
Collaboration not silos: How everyone’s contribution makes a difference to wound care
Who is our stream suitable for?
We welcome attendance from any health care professional working directly or indirectly in wound prevention and management who may want a more advanced level of knowledge. This includes Tissue Viability nurses, community and hospital-based nurses, Allied health professionals, podiatrists, specialist nurses such as vascular, burns or paediatric nurses, doctors, academics, and educators.
Programme
08:30 – 08:40 Intro from SoTV Chair, Sarah Gardner, Chair of SoTV and Independent Tissue Viability Consultant, Wound Matters
08:40 – 09:30 How Greater Manchester made wound care a system wide priority in their 5 year plan
Mr Naseer Ahmad, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Manchester University Foundation Trust
Mr Matthew Allen, Consultant Podiatrist, Salford Care Organisation, Northern Care Alliance
Chiamaka Igbokwe, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Manchester Vascular Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Dr Kristen Sorenson, Senior Research Fellow, Keele University
09:30 – 10:00 Break and exhibition viewing
10:00 – 11:00 Industry symposia
11:00 – 11.30 Break and exhibition viewing
11:30 – 12:00 Complex lower limb revascularisation: the state of the art, Mr Lukla Biasi, Consultant Vascular Endovascular Surgeon, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation
12:00 – 12:30 Comprehensive lower limb assessment and prescribing: learnings from the London Perioperative Care for Older People Service (POPS), Dr Jemell Geraghty, Lecturer and Nurse Consultant & Independent Nurse Prescriber, King’s College London – Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and Ad Integrum Vascular & Wound Care Ltd, Change Grow Live (CGL, UK)
12:30 – 13.00 Break and exhibition viewing
13:00 – 14:00 Industry Symposia
14:00 – 14:30 Break and exhibition viewing
14:30 – 15:30 Alternative therapies in wound care, Professor Valerie Edward Jones, Independent Microbiology Consultant
15:30 – 16:00 Break and exhibition viewing
16:00 – 16:30 Managing malignant wounds, Lynn Cornish, Tissue Viability Lead, St Margaret’s Hospice Care, Somerset
16:30 – 17:00 The management of Lymphorrhoea (leakage of lymph through the skin) in cancer related lymphoedema, Rebecca Elwell, Macmillan Lymphoedema ANP and Team Leader and BLS Trustee, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
17:00 – 17:30 Break and exhibition viewing
17:30 – 18:00 The psychological impact of living with a wound – Dr Nicholas Clarke, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry and Visiting Research Fellow, Guys, King’s College London
18:00 – 18:30 The psychological impact of living with a wound – a real life experience
Madeleine Flanagan, SoTV Trustee and
Jan Bowyer, Personal experience of a wound and Associate Director of Academic Quality Assurance, University of Hertfordshire
