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How the pandemic has strengthened the way forward for future wound care for our patients by providing more streamlined care.

For some, lockdown has been a complete life change. But for others, including many of the million leg ulcer patients across the country – old and young, there's been no change.

We are now in the fourth month of our nation fighting the pandemic. And four months of no prevention work could lead to a lifetime legacy of ill health and worsening outcomes for many patients. 

Lockdown presented the need and opportunity for me to work differently during the Coronavirus and I’m two months into my redeployment as a community tissue viability nurse.

Patients require effective treatment and if they do not receive compression, then COVID-19 or not will not stop the deterioration.

In the initial weeks with COVID-19 I was fuelled by adrenaline but as it trickled away, the true nature of this terrible pandemic is starting to take hold.