Core Career and Capabilities Framework – Guidance, standards & resources across clinical areas

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Publishers
National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP), NHS England
Topic
Educational
Content type
Downloadable PDF

Background

  • It is vital General Practice nurses/community nursing teams have attained the appropriate wound care competencies for their role.
  • Wound care should not be viewed as a separate clinical issue but as an integral part of the holistic assessment, including optimisation of long-term conditions which cause or contribute to wounding and delayed/non-healing.
  • Failure to diagnose wound type, leads to potential delays in providing patients with appropriate evidence-based treatment pathways, which could result in delayed/non healing and/or secondary complications
  • It is important that General Practice nurses/community nursing teams are up to date with information on wound care and use this in care planning with patients to maximize their potential for wound healing
  • It is vital to collaborate between Primary Care, community and the wider systems, where appropriate, to mitigate the risk of barriers to care and improve access/equity to achieving best practice.
    To ensure we have robust services to meet the needs of our populations, evaluation of wound care activity should be part of commissioning discussions to secure appropriate future provision.

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Steering Group and Faculty

Steering Group

  • Georgina Ritchie, Director of Education, Accelerate CIC
  • Katy Smyth, Academy Teacher, Accelerate CIC
  • Jane Parker, Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse, West Norfolk Coastal & Kings Lynn Primary Care Networks
  • Rachel Sweeney, Lead Tissue Viability Specialist Nurse & Clinical Lead Skin Integrity Team, Norfolk Community Health and Care
  • Rachael Lee, Acting Programme Manager, National Wound Care Strategy Programme
  • Karen Storey, Community Nursing Lead NHSE

Peer Review Faculty

  • Louise Brady, General Practice Nurse and Primary Care Nursing Lead NHSE
  • Gail Goddard, DNSPQ, Senior Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University, District Nurse HCHC and Chair of RCN District and Community Nursing Forum
  • Sarah Gardner, Chair of the Society of Tissue Viability
  • Ruth Colbeck, General Practice Nurse, Lead Nurse West Leeds Primary Care network.
  • Jacqui Fletcher, National Wound Care Strategy Programme
  • Jacky Edwards, National Wound Care Strategy Programme
  • Nicky Morton, National Wound Care Strategy Programme
  • Julie Hewish, Transforming Wound Care Programme