Across our health economies, it is clear that the demand for healthcare is increasing. This is due to factors such as an aging population, prevalence of long-term conditions (e.g. Diabetes) and patient expectations.
An additional challenge is the availability of resources required to manage this increasing demand due to constraints in budgets and available healthcare professionals. For instance, district nurses can spend up to 60% of their working time managing wounds1 but the number of district nurses decreased by 39% between 2002 and 20122,3.
Wound Healing Optimisation could help to provide the NHS, clinicians and patients with realisable benefits:
NHS
Reduce unnecessary waste
Enhance resource effectiveness and efficiency
Manage increasing wound care demand
In-year wound care budget release
Clinician
Increase patient facing time
Help manage increasing work load
Reduce extra ‘overtime’ hours
Improve staff well-being
Improve job satisfaction through enhancing patient outcomes
Facilitate faster healing by reducing wound disturbance
