There’s a whole host of resources such as films, leaflets, clinical evidence and publications that have been carefully curated by our experts to help support you – whether you’re a healthcare professional, patient, career, friend or family member.
Date: January, 2024
Published by: NICE
Condition: Sepsis
This guideline covers the recognition, diagnosis and early management of suspected sepsis. It includes recommendations on recognition and early assessment, initial treatment, escalating care, finding and controlling the source of infection, early monitoring, information and support, and training and education.
Date: October, 2023
Published by: NHS England
Authors: Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication and NHS England
Access: Open
Condition: Varicose Veins
This leaflet will help you decide about treatments for varicose veins. You could use it to prepare for your next appointment. There are pages you can fill in and pages explaining about treatments.
Date: June 2023
Authors: All-party parliamentary group on Vascular and Venous Disease
Condition: Venous Disease
Approximately, over 500,000 people live with a form of venous leg ulceration in the UK, a number that has doubled in the past 10 years, with estimated healthcare costs associated with these wounds reaching £2.7 billion annually.
Date: 2023
Published by: Vascular Research UK
Condition: Arterial Disease
The video aims to raise awareness of arterial disease and to encourage people to seek help early if they develop symptoms.
Date: Monday 12 June 2023
Published by: Legs Matter
Authors: Alison Hopkins, Leanne Atkin, Naseer Ahmed, Manj Gohel, Zoe Larmour and Crystal Oldman
Access: Open
Condition: Leg Ulcers
The event is chaired by Alison Hopkins MBE RN and, with leading experts drawn from the worlds of community nursing, vascular surgery, and the patient community, it’s a lively and fascinating debate.
The focus of the panel is on the hidden harm crisis in leg ulcer management and the inadequate use of evidenced based compression therapy in the community. Around 50% of wound care activity every week is focussed on lower leg wounds within community nursing teams; this is less where there is an established leg ulcer service and a lymphoedema service.
If this was used in primary care, so much harm and distress could be prevented. A consistent and supported approach to using informed and well-documented evidence and guidance would create a step change in community care, reducing healthcare costs and improving the working lives of nurses and the well-being of patients. Healing rates would be starkly different and stop us using the phrase of chronic leg ulcers.
Date: June, 2023
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Access: Open – free to use
Knowing what questions to ask your GP or other healthcare professional can help you make sure that you, or someone you care for, gets the right treatment for a leg or foot condition. Here are some questions that everyone who has a leg or foot condition should ask their GP or healthcare professional.
Date: June, 2023
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Access: Open – free to use
This plan calls on senior leaders, decision makers and clinicians within the NHS to radically rethink the way people with leg and foot conditions are treated in order to reduce their risk of being harmed.
Date: May, 2023
Published by: Wounds UK
Authors: J. Fletcher, L. Atkin, D. Brown, R. Byrom, G. Cooper-Stanton, R. Elwell, S. Haigh, C. Irvine, C. Merrick
Access: Open Access
Condition: Compression Therapy
This best practice document has been written and reviewed by a group of highly experienced lymphoedema, vascular and tissue viability specialists and makes recommendations about the use of compression therapy in patients with heart failure.
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