Introduction

Jocelyn Cornwell, Chief Executive, Point of Care Foundation

Jocelyn will set the scene for the next two days focusing our attention on the importance of human relationships and how this is pivotal in all care settings

Session title TBC

David Gray, Professor, Birmingham City University; Director, Healogics Wound Healing Centres

• Results of a five-year strategic plan across six clinics, which achieved over 90% healing rates for those patients treated
• Methods employed to ensure consistency, including skill mix of staff, education and competency, as well as clinical methods used
• Questions from the audience

Taking a proactive approach to Lymphoedema

Karen Morgan, National Lymphoedema Education and Research Lead and

Melanie Thomas, National Lymphoedema Clinical Lead, both at Lymphoedema Network Wales

• Early intervention and management of patients with chronic oedema is vital in reducing the patient’s risk of developing complexities, such as cellulitis and wounds
• The chronic oedema ‘Wet Leg’ pathway supports prompt, effective management of wet legs and superficial wounds; using this pathway reduces dressing costs, episodes of cellulitis and decreases community nurse visits, thereby releasing time back to care and support value-based health care for the patient and NHS
• The All Wales Lymphoedema Compression Garment Formulary can be used as an evidence-based prescribing tool and is an essential guide
• Questions from the audience

Innovations in managing diabetic foot ulcers

Andrew Sharp, Advanced Podiatrist, Blackpool Teaching Hospital, NHS Trust

• How technology and IT can support the clinician in prevention, early diagnosis, follow-up care and how this can help with more effective resource application
• Exploring the evidence and achieving best practice
• Questions from the audience

Free papers

Each speaker will be provided with 10 minutes — seven-minute presentation and three minutes for questions. This is an opportunity to showcase and share innovative work in practice

• Innovations in practice — from technology to improving patient outcomes
• Challenging wound care trends — reducing the variants that affect all wound care providers
• Complex and challenging case reports — review of unusual clinical case reports

Red legs: getting the right diagnosis

Leanne Atkin, Lecturer Practitioner, Division of Podiatry and Clinical Sciences, University of Huddersfield

• The burden of cellulitis — clinical signs and why these can be misinterpreted
• Differential diagnosis and how this impacts on management
• What else can be done?
• Questions from the audience

How to break down invisible barriers

Anita Kilroy-Findley, Tissue Viability Nurse, Adult Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Children, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

• Mental health and learning disability service users get the same wounds as everyone else — are they being referred to specialist services?
• How do we ensure that patients’ beliefs are included in treatment objectives
• Thinking out of the box and still achieving measurable outcomes
• Questions from the audience

Session title TBC

Joy Tickle, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Clinical lead, Shropshire Community NHS Trust

• Taking delegates on a journey of clinical challenges, discussing a variety of unusual cases and the diagnostic processes for each one

Dinner

Wound Care Today guest dinner speaker
Greg Searle, MBE
Olympic Rower — Gold, Barcelona 1992; Bronze, Atlanta 1996; Bronze, London 2012
World Championship Gold, 1993
Greg shares his experiences of training as a world-class athlete to encourage others

Wound Care Today international guest speaker

Dr Kshitij Shandkhdhar, Consultant Diabetologist, Indiranagar, Lucknow. Dr Shandkhdhar has been awarded for his pioneering work in the field of diabetic foot care in India and his clinic in Lucknow was recognised as a ‘state-of-the-art diabetic foot clinic’ at the National Diabetic Foot Conclave of India, Mumbai, 14 July, 2017

Dr Shandkhdhar will explain how his practice has evolved through personnel development along with professional expertise to meet the challenges of developing a worldwide service in a developing country, thus tying together the themes from both days one and two of Wound Care Today 2018

Understanding myself and others

To increase self-awareness and impact through a better understanding of what makes us, and others tick. This will be done by using the True Colours Personality Tool to explore individual personality preferences, enabling you to gain a better understanding of how to work effectively with others of different personality preferences

Courageous conversations

• To understand the value of courageous conversations in transforming relationships
• Explore healthy and unhealthy relationship dynamics
• Increase your confidence and ability to influence these conversations by using a conversation framework, which helps you prepare and effectively engage
  your stakeholders
• How to manage your state and deliver your message without ‘the load’