title: Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services.
abstract: A pioneering community-based multi-disciplinary wound care team, working alongside a tissue viability service, developed within East Lancashire teaching PCT. The drive to push the nurse-led wound care agenda forward requires powerful champions to acknowledge the value of multi-professional care, therefore this article embraces a care delivery model based on a 'spend to save' framework. This live platform, using a multi-disciplinary specialism, uses an electronic database to demonstrate measurable outcomes, reporting weekly and monthly patient and non-patient activities. The impetus for developing this service was to enable community nurses to refocus their time on patients with long-term conditions.
authors.affiliation: Integrated Wound Care Services, NHS East Lancashire Community. marcia.haworth@eastlancspct.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haworth
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit; D010348:Patient Care Team; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*