NIHR Wounds Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Funded by the National Institute for Health Research through the Wounds Research for Patient Benefit Programme (WRPB) at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust in collaboration with the Universities of York and Manchester.
The research aims to make the care of people with complex, chronic wounds (e.g. leg and foot ulcers and pressure ulcers) as good as it can be by:
- learning much more about the people affected
- finding out which treatments are most effective
- listening and documenting patients', carers' and staff perspectives on features of high quality services and treatments
What are complex wounds?
Wounds which involve superficial, partial or full thickness skin loss, which are healing by secondary intention. They are wounds with an underlying cause or which occur in patients where underlying disease may impact upon healing e.g. pressure ulcers, leg ulcers and dehisced surgical wounds.
Source: NETVNS North East Tissue Viability Nurses
The work is organised as three overlapping workstreams:
Workstream 1: Who is affected? What is the impact? Who are we treating? Which treatments are used? What are the costs? Can data from a Wounds Register tell us about the effectiveness of treatments?
Workstream 2: What matters to patients and carers?
Workstream 3: Which treatments work? What is the evidence?
