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Johnny is keen to eradicate the stigma of lower limb conditions by promoting healthy conversation, as well as endorsing the value of self care in preventing escalation of leg conditions and empowering people to take care of their legs.

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.

Since March 2020, his wife, Pat, has taken on Peter’s care supported by Legs Matter member Kate Williams, a wound clinical nurse specialist at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust.