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In June 2022 when home Wound Care was started locally, our aim was to meet the need for people to be able to get expert private wound care nurse assessments and the most effective wound healing dressings done at home. To get poor healing wounds such as leg wounds (sometimes known as leg ulcers) better quickly.

I was frustrated by the large number of (mostly) older people feeling a bit miserable and unnecessarily living with pain for months, and even years, from these unhealed wounds. There can be months of waiting to see Tissue Viability nurses (specialist wound care nurses) on the NhS, if possible at all. And there are lots of issues getting dressing appointments at Gp surgeries because the community nurses are so busy and there is no funding for more.

After successfully recruiting two excellent tissue viability nurse specialists and lots of wound care nurses, we are now out and about locally, working healing wonders! We have had 100% positive feedback, except for the price!

To address the price issue, I approached the manufacturers of the dressings we are using and offered for our team to do product reviews for them and sometimes compare one dressing to another in clinical trials. They have been struggling to get this information as NhS nurses do not have the time to do the feedback and all the extra form ticking needed.

The great news is that we can now provide our care FrEE OF ChArGE to all patients who are happy to join one of these studies and product reviews.

All the product reviews and trials we do, will have set criteria for what sort of wound etc they want to check, so not everyone will be eligible for each one. however, because we have lots of product reviews starting all the time, we should be able to find one that matches you. If you join a formal clinical trial, you will usually be paid some money at the end to compensate for the inconvenience of longer nursing visits – it’s worth checking!

So if you would like to get our excellent expert private care, at home, at your convenience, for free, do let us know. You might be one of the first people to try out our fancy new dressings in West Sussex, advance the knowledge of wound healing, and also reduce the burden on the NhS by one less patient to see.

We would really appreciate any referrals to family and friends. We need more patients as not enough people know about us yet! As well as locally, we now have two nurses in the midlands starting to see patients, and a couple elsewhere and we are happy to drive out of the local area.

Please ring us on 01903 331963 if you would like more information.

If you have any ideas about how we can let more elderly people know about us through your club etc, or you have personal/family experience of leg wounds and would like to be a local ambassador for our service, please do give me a call.