Solving skin and wound challenges together
We believe that skin health and wound healing is everyone’s business and that change happens when we work together, not in silos.
We believe that skin health and wound healing is everyone’s business and that change happens when we work together, not in silos. Come to our annual face to face conference and you can join our community and listen to live lectures, interviews and discussions, take part in workshops, visit industry exhibition booths, network with colleagues and speakers and join the live conversations during the sessions.
Our conference really is space where professional connections are made, ideas are shared and collaborative action happens.
Registration – what’s included?
Registration includes:
- Access to the educational sessions
- Access to the industry exhibition
- Refreshments and lunch bag
Click the ‘Book Tickets’ button to make your registration.
Our unique programme has three key areas
01Society of Tissue Viability Main Annual Conference 18 – 19 May – sharing the best new thinking and practices in skin health and wound healing
02 Wounds Research Network (WReN), 18 May – for those interested in wounds research
03 Fundamentals in Wound Care, 19 May – which is free of charge for those local to the Glasgow area **Bookings for this event are now closed**
Our scientific symposia
Let’s get back on track! – Negative Pressure Wound Therapy – 08:00 – 09:00 18 May 2022 – find out more about providing optimal Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the post-Covid environment.
Moderator: Fran Norman Speaker: Claire Porter
Don’t let hard-to-heal wounds hold you back – Kickstart Healing Now! – 08:00 – 09:00 19 May 2022 – find out more about challenges of unhealing wounds and their disproportionate burden on both resources, costs and patient care.
Moderator: Kate Williams Speakers: Lauren Olenczuk and Jeanette Milne
Our conference streams
We’ve developed a innovative programme for our face to face event in Glasgow covering the following topics:
- Getting the low down: evidence based care for patients with lower limb conditions
- Antimicrobial stewardship: it’s everyone’s business
- Beyond the cut: the challenges of managing surgical wounds
- Invest to grow: how education & development shapes practice
- Clinical Governance: learning not blaming
- Dermatology & tissue viability: the perfect partners
- Geographically challenged: remote wound care provision
- Collaboration not silos: working together to reduce pressure ulcers
- Addressing the mental health needs of patients
- Inner health: nutrition’s role in skin health and wound healing
- Complexities of burns management
- Essentials of debridement
- Together we are better: integrating care in the care home setting
- Wounds Research Network (WReN)
- Fundamentals in wound care
Exhibition and branding opportunities
For companies who are looking to exhibit and / or explore other ways to promote their brand and products.
Hotels, travel and parking
All the information to make your trip to Glasgow hassle free
Free places
We are delighted that we have a few more Free Places to offer for the conference (this does not include our Fundamentals in Wound Care Event on Thursday 19)
- Click ‘Book Tickets’
- Select Free local place
- Enter your details
- Confirm which day/s you’re attending
- Click ‘Submit’
Educational grants
Thank you for your interest in our educational grants, we have had an overwhelming response and, at the moment, all have been taken. If this situation changes, we will immediately advertise via our website and social media channels.
Thanks to our Corporate Partners who support these grants.
The conference was very educational and well planned. The speakers were invaluable to our practice and their passion shined through.
Conference Speakers
Danielle Base
Specialist Occupational Therapist and Moving and Handling Practitioner
Pearce Brothers Mobility
Read more…Jo-Anne Beresford
Senior Lecturer, Tissue Viability and Tissue Viability Nurse
Uni of Huddersfield TVN & Leeds Community Healthcare Trust
Read more…Susan Cameron
Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Infection Prevention & Control
Argyll & Bute Victoria Integrated Care Centre
Read more…Aswin Chari
Academic Neurosurgical Trainee
Great Ormond St Hospital and UCL's Institute of Child Health
Read more…Zoë Chouliara
Psychotherapist, Consultant Counsellor
Private Practice, YourGP Edinburgh, Purple House Clinic Glasgow
Read more…Jamie Cochrane
Head of Programmes (SACMPPPP),
National Centre for Sustainable Delivery, Hosted by NHS Golden Jubilee
Read more…Susanne Coleman
NIHR Post-Doc Researcher
Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds
Read more…Alun Davies
Professor of Vascular Surgery and NIHR Senior Investigator
Imperial College London
Read more…Jeannie Donnelly
Lead Nurse Tissue Viability & Honorary Senior Lecturer
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust & School of Nursing, Queens University Belfast
Read more…Jacky Edwards
Clinical Lead for Surgical Wounds and Wound Infection, Lead for Education and Workforce
NWCSP
Read more…Jacqui Fletcher
Senior Clinical Advisor STOP the Pressure Programme & Clinical Lead Pressure Ulcers
NHSEI and National Wound Care Strategy Programme
Read more…Jemell Geraghty
Lecturer and Nurse Consultant & Independent Nurse Prescriber
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College London and Ad Integrum Vascular & Wound Care Ltd, Change Grow Live (CGL, UK)
Read more…Clare Greenwood
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Tissue Viability and Visiting Research Fellow
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Clinical Trials and Research Unit, University of Leeds
Read more…Julie Hewish
National TV Clinical Lead for the transforming wound care programme
Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN)
Read more…Raffael Himmelsbach
Co-director & Open Innovation in Science Manager
Ludwig Boltzmann Research Group SHoW – Senescence and Healing of Wounds
Read more…Beth Howard
Specialist Dietitian in Burns and Plastics
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Read more…Usman Jaffer
Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Imperial College London
Read more…Liang Liu
Senior Research Fellow / Lecturer
Centre for the Critical Research in Nursing and Midwifery (CCRNM), Adult, Child and Midwifery, Middlesex University, London
Read more…Judith Long
Research Manager
Academic Vascular Surgical Unit, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Read more…Rhiannon Macefield
Research Fellow
Centre for Surgical Research, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
Read more…Rosemary Macritchie
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Tissue Viability & Continence Lead
NHS Western Isles
Read more…Kristina Mountain
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Read more…Delia Muir
Public Involvement and Engagement Lead
Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research (LICTR)
Read more…Joyce Murray
Senior Improvement Adviser (focus on health and well being of adults and older people)
Health and Social Care Improvement Team, Care Inspectorate
Read more…Andrea Nelson
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Director of the Research Centre for Health (ReaCH)
Glasgow Caledonian University
Read more…Jane Nixon
Professor of Tissue Viability and Clinical Trials Research
Leeds Institute Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds
Read more…Fran Norman (was Spratt)
Lead Nurse Tissue Viability
Southampton University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
Read more…Thomas Pinkney
Honorary Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon and George Drexler & Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials
University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham
Read more…Claire Porter
Advanced Practice Lead in Burns & Plastics
University Hospitals of Leicester
Read more…Linda Primmer
Community Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist
Edinburgh, East & Midlothian Health & Social Care Partnerships in NHS Lothian
Read more…George Ramsay
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Aberdeen University and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Read more…Nicky Richardson
Lead Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist
Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Read more…Kulvant Sandhu
Named Nurse for Mental Capacity Act & Dementia
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Read more…Heidi Sandoz
Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist, Independent TV Consultant & SoTV Skin Care Champion Educator
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Read more…Andrew Seaton
Consultant in Infectious Diseases
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Chair Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group
Read more…Alison Smith
Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian
Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group
Read more…Shaun Treweek
Professor of Health Services Research
Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen
Read more…Kate Williams
Senior Lecturer - Tissue Viability and Honorary Tissue Viability Nurse
University of Huddersfield and Leeds Community Healthcare Trust
Read more…Dove Yu
Senior Specialist Dietitian in Nutrition support and Palliative care
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Read more…