Next meeting of the Welsh Wound Network
It is excellent to report that the next meeting of the Welsh Wound Network will take place on March 30th 2012 at the medical school in Cardiff.  The programme for the event will be posted here shortly but a major discussion point will be safeguarding the future of our Network.  As always there will be opportunity for any member to present for five minutes using no more than 3 slides.  If you want to take up this opportunity to share news with the group please e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and send your slides to the same address by March 25th.
 
Major international wound conference coming to Wales in 2012

The Welsh Wound Network is proud to be able to report that the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) will bring its annual conference in 2012 to Cardiff!  The meeting will take place over the 19th to 21st September 2012 at the Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel and Spa.  Keep watching the Welsh Wound Network website for updates upon this important event.
 
The Assessment and Management of Skin Tears

New Best Practice Statement on skin tears is available here from the All Wales Tissue Viability Nurse Forum. 
 
Essential Elements of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management. New guidance for Wales.

The All Wales Tissue Viability Nurse Forum have produced a new guidance document upon pressure ulcers.  The Essential Elements of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management document is available here and is based upon the recent NPUAP and EPUAP International Pressure Ulcer Guidelines.  The NPUAP EPUAP guidelines did not provide specific pointers towards the implementation of the guidelines in practice given that each country may face different challenges when seeking to implement the evidence based guidelines.  The All Wales Tissue Viability Nurses Forum have now provided assistance upon the implementation of the pressure ulcer guidelines for practitioners working in Wales and marks an important development in the implementation of the pressure ulcer guidelines within Europe.

 
 
Just the Facts
The second in an occasional series of factsheets covering the epidemiology, costs and consequences of common wound types. This series is produced by the Welsh Wound Network to provide commercial organisations and individual clinicians and researchers with rapid access to recent data both to support funding applications and provide background information for publications. Download Factsheet 1 - Pressure Ulcers and Factsheet 2 - Leg Ulcers
 

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