Page last updated:
22nd June 2023

Resources

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.

Future of venous disease: growing problems, shrinking workforce

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.

File size: (3.56 MB PDF)

No harm in asking – The essential questions to ask your GP or other healthcare professionals

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.

Ten-point plan to tackle harm

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.

Best Practice Statement – The use of compression therapy for peripheral oedema: considerations in people with heart failure

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.

File size: (939.59 KB PDF)

10 Top tips on leg ulcers for healthcare professionals

Date: May, 2022
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Access: Open – free to use

Here’s a simple guide with 10 top tips on how to appraise, diagnose, and treat leg ulcers to avoid harm.

This resource also explains with handy tips how you should involve patients with your approach to leg ulcer management.

Having better conversations about chronic swelling / lymphoedema

Date: October, 2021
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Authors: Alison Hopkins at Accelerate
Access: Open – free to use

This film explores how you discuss these issues with your nurse, or healthcare professional. This film will help you learn to take better control of your lymphoedema.

Pilates & Yoga sessions for people with Leg & Foot Conditions – film resources

Date: October, 2021
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Access: Open – free to use

A series of short Yoga and Pilates films designed especially to support you with excise and movement with your lower leg and foot conditions.

Real life story videos – film resources

Date: October, 2021
Published by: Legs Matter Coalition
Access: Open – free to use

A series of appropriate real life stories and conversation with Legs Matter coalition patients and partners. Stories that will make you laugh, cry and think about the way we approach leg and foot conditions and what changes we can all make.

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