National recognition for local wound care

24 February, 2014

Nursing teams from City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) are up for three awards at the national Journal of Wound Care Awards in Manchester next month.

A glittering ceremony on 17 March will see if they can bring more trophies and recognition back to Hull. The Lymphoedema Service was nominated under the chronic oedema and compression category for best practice and innovation, the Community Nursing and Medicines Service is up for their wound management supply chain initiative under the cost effective wound management category and Tissue Viability Nursing are hoping to triumph in the under pressure care category for innovation.

CHCP CIC’s Tissue Viability nurses, who treat people who need complex and chronic wound management, have also been nominated for the British Journal of Nursing Awards for Tissue Viability Nursing in the pressure care category for innovation. These prestigious awards will take place on 21March in London.

And as if that wasn’t enough, the tissue viability team has also been invited to give an oral presentation on pressure care at the National Tissue Viability Society Conference in York in April.

Lynda Whincup, director of adult services at CHCP CIC, said, “Our nursing teams are doing a fantastic job and it’s very gratifying to see them recognised at a national level for their hard work. They are not only treating patients, they are also constantly looking at ways they can improve and three nominations for innovation show that we are leading the field in this area.”