What is Tissue Viability?

Working directly with patients and health care professionals, the Tissue Viability Service provides clinical expertise and advice on both wound prevention and wound healing.

Our overall goal is to ensure that any patient, who has an active wound or is at risk of developing wounds, receives the optimum care to enable effective healing and prevention of recurrence.

We do this either through specialist assessment and treatment plans and/or educating the community workforce to ensure assessment and care are provided in line with national best practice standards.

Who we help

The service is provided to aid and support patients who have:

• a complex or hard to heal wound and any associated diseases, for example:
  • pressure ulcers
  • leg ulcers
  • malignant wounds
  • lymphoedema / chronic oedema
• a need for pressure ulcer prevention
• a requirement for specialist healthcare equipment such as a pressure relieving mattress or cushion