SAWC 2020 Virtual July 2020

Download SAWC 2020 VIRTUAL e-Poster (A4 PDF format) 

© Professor Frances Game (primary author), Doreen Bunting, Dara Coppel, Achala Patel (July 2020).

New wound care resources have been released by NWCSP to support COVID-19 planning 

Entec Health is keen to share an important update from the National Wound Care Strategy Programme, for England (NWCSP). With the kind permission of the NWCSP, we have signposted this new information below for your review. 

The NWCSP has developed some key documents that are designed to support self -care / shared care of patients with wounds. These documents have been fast-tracked and co-developed rapidly with a small group of clinicians and patients, to meet the urgent need for such advice in the face of the COVID-19 situation.

Visit the National Wound Care Strategy Programme Help & Advice webpage, click here 

These materials can be found on the NWCSP website: 

Please click here to go to the NWCSP Help & Advice web page. Click on Patients & Carers or Healthcare Professionals. 

Please click here to go to the NWCSP Home Page. 

The NWCSP website is evolving and future updates are planned over time to enhance the resources available and further improve site navigation.

The NWCSP are also in discussion with NHS England and NHS Improvement who are considering adopting these documents. 

The contact email for NWCSP is NatWoundStrat@yhahsn.com

We hope you find this update of value. 

The Kings Diabetes Foot Team is hosting an evening networking event. Its aim is to establish good working relations and communication between fellow Podiatrists and AHPs who work within the diabetic foot sector. 

Click this link to learn more about the Building Bridges event

Learn more about how Silhouette is supporting integrated diabetes foot care in South Derbyshire

Video by kind permission of East Midlands Academic Health Science Network  

A new video from East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network (EMAHSN) gives an insider view on South Derbyshire's technology-enabled diabetes foot care service which is deploying Silhouette®, an innovative digital wound assessment solution. 

The new model of care is supporting efficient MDFT service access across Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust by enabling care in community clinics with oversight from acute MDFT clinical leads. The Silhouette solution is empowering staff with remote access to real time diabetes foot ulcer assessment data including digital images, 3D measurements, ulcer healing charts and electronic clinical notes, making referral of care a much simpler process for the clinician.

The video features the Lead Clinicians from the NHS Provider Trusts, the Clinical Commissioning Lead, Patients and collaboration partners EMAHSN as the innovation catalyst and industry partners Entec Health Limited and Aranz Medical Ltd.

Watch the video to get a close and personal account of the digital health innovation journey and the benefits gained from the adoption of the new Silhouette technology in the South Derbyshire diabetes foot care pathway.

 Testimonials from the featured EMAHSN video

Learn more

Download new case study, Diabetes Foot Care – Integrated diabetes foot pathway, South Derbyshire, February 2019

Visit Silhouette for Diabetes Foot Management Application 

Book a conversation or Silhouette demonstration meeting with Entec Health: Email us at sales@entechealth.com 

The team at Entec Health has enjoyed a fantastic year, working together with our customers and partners. As many of you will know, Entec Health supports wound care transformation with a proven portfolio of enabling technologies. The offering includes the Silhouette wound assessment solution and the Wound Care Buddy App. As a team we have achieved some incredible milestones, with a shared mission to enable health innovation and ultimately, to help improve patient experience and patient care outcomes. 

Thank you to all our clients and partners who have made this success possible during 2018. Hope you enjoy watching the 2018 highlights from an amazing year captured in our short review video. 

Watch Entec Health 2018 Highlights here

It has been very rewarding to collaborate with pioneering and committed leaders and teams in the NHS, AHSNs and the wider healthcare community. We have shown that, together, we can develop and deliver new practices and new models of care in diabetes foot care and wound care to support sustainable healthcare services and improved patient experience.

Visit Diabetes Foot Care, Chronic Wound Management, Wound Formulary Management on our website to learn more.

Are you a healthcare innovator with a similar vision for the future? We are here to learn together and collaborate. Please drop us a line at sales@entechealth.com to discuss your future plans for diabetes foot care, tissue viability and community nursing service development.

We look forward to working with our clients and partners in 2019 for more success in digitally-enabled health innovation.

Wishing you a Prosperous, Happy and Healthy New Year for 2019.

Best wishes from all the team at Entec Health

Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Nurse ⁺and Edwin Chamanga, Senior Lecturer Tissue Viability ⁺⁺

presenting free paper at Wounds UK 2018 Annual Conference, Harrogate

⁺ Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

⁺⁺ Kingston University and St. George's University of London

Entec Health were pleased to have their collaboration partners from Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) present an e-poster and free paper at the Wounds UK Annual Conference, Harrogate, 5-7 November 2018.

As first adopters of the Wound Care Buddy App (© Entec Health Limited), Tissue Viability Lead Nurse, Lillah Irwin, alongside Senior Lecturer Tissue Viability Edwin Chamanga, shared their experience and results on implementation of a Wound Care Mobile App to support best practice in community wound care.

Positive impacts and benefits of the Wound Care Buddy App reported by HRCH in peer-reviewed free paper session at Wounds UK 2018 conference:

• Encourages clinicians to holistically assess patients with wound care guidelines available at their “finger tips”.
• Reduces delays in starting appropriate care
• Supports appropriate referrals to TVNs
• From the reviewed data, there is evidence of clinicians frequently accessing the key dressings and formulary listings screens, which could be considered as evidence of wound care formulary compliance
• This meets with the Department of Health agenda of digital mobile working

Implementation of a Wound Care Mobile App in a Community Setting

Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Nurse ⁺ and Edwin Chamanga Senior Lecturer in Tissue Viability ⁺⁺

⁺ Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

⁺⁺ Kingston University and St. George's University of London

Download the HRCH Trust e-poster and free paper presentation here, by kind permission of the authors.

It has been an exciting few months for the Hounslow & Richmond Community Trust Tissue Viability Team. The HRCH Tissue Viability team were announced finalists in the Nursing Times Awards 2018, for the Innovation in Chronic Wound Management Category. Read more.

Inspired to adopt the Wound Care Buddy App?

The Wound Care Buddy App is developed and hosted by Entec Health as a cloud-based service. Supported by Wounds UK, Entec Health is pleased to bring the Wound Care Buddy App to healthcare providers to help make best practice and formulary compliance easier and smarter.

Please get in touch to schedule a Wound Care Buddy App conversation or demonstration. Call Louis Easy, Entec Health Sales, on 07376 046 824 for further information.

Download Wound Care Buddy App brochure here

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Entec Health team at Wounds UK, 2018 from left, Managing Director - Achala Patel, Solutions Manager – Amir Dean, Sales & Marketing Executive – Louis Easy

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust Tissue Viability team celebrate Nursing Times Awards 2018 Finalists achievement with collaboration partner Entec Health 

Nursing Times Awards 2018 celebrates nursing achievements and innovation 

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) has been announced as a deserving finalist in the prestigious Nursing Times Awards 2018. The HRCH Tissue Viability team were selected as finalists in the Innovation in Chronic Wound Management category, for their successful implementation of a wound care mobile app which supports wound management and formulary compliance. The app, known as the Wound Care Buddy App, is developed and hosted by Entec Health, a company specialising in digital technologies for wound care transformation. 

The HRCH Trust is the first organisation in the NHS to adopt the Wound Care Buddy App as part of their commitment to enabling their nurses to deliver the best patient care possible. The Wound Care Buddy App has been very well received at the Trust. There has been positive impact for the Tissue Viability Nursing team and District Nurses, helping staff to access essential wound management information rapidly when needed and to use their time more effectively. 

As collaboration partners in the successful adoption of the Wound Care Buddy App by the Trust, Entec Health were fortunate enough to join the NT Awards celebrations with the HRCH team on 31st October 2018, at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.  

Achala Patel, Managing Director, Entec Health said "My congratulations to the Tissue Viability team at Hounslow and Richmond Community Trust. The Nursing Times Awards night in London was very special. It gave the collaboration team a chance to step back and enjoy the achievement of taking forward a digital initiative for community nursing which is now benefiting clinicians and patient care at the Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust. I would like to convey my special thanks to Edwin Chamanga, former Tissue Viability Lead at the Trust who initiated the project and Lillah Irwin, Tissue Viability Nurse and Amrit Mangal, Lead Administrator (Specialist Nursing) who have shown great commitment in ensuring successful implementation of the Wound Care Buddy App for the Trust. " 

See a Virtual Tour of the Wound Care Buddy App

Email sales@entechealth.com to book a conversation or demonstration to find out more.

Visit Entec Health website

Acknowledgement:

The Nursing Times Awards 2018 Innovation in Chronic Wound Management Category is kindly sponsored by L&R, a wound care and compression therapy products company.

Wound Care Buddy App © Entec Health Limited April 2017 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

New from Entec Health, supported by Wounds UK

Wound Care is seeing a major shift towards a greater focus on outcomes and evidence-based practice to reduce variation in care and enhance patient experience.  

There is recognition that we have come a long way on our journey in managing patients with wounds. However, the recent study by Guest et al “Health economic burden that wounds impose”, Betty’s Story from NHS RightCare and the CQUIN for wound assessment indicate that we have a big opportunity to further advance what can be achieved.

The challenges are there too in delivering safe, effective patient care. Growing demand from an increasing elderly population, financial constraints, not enough hours in the day, staff shortages and keeping up with training are everyday pressures.

This year’s Wounds UK Conference theme is Data, Science and Practice, a very timely and apt focus on data-led, evidence-based practice. Wounds UK Harrogate is a perfect place to take a step back and seek out insights, innovation and inspiration on improving practice and patient care. 

Entec Health will be at Wounds UK Harrogate, 5-7 November 2018, to be part of this mission, to help with new ways of working to achieve success with better practice and better outcomes.

Entec Health invites you to join the team at Stand 73 to learn more about our innovative digital technologies for wound care transformation:

The Wound Care Buddy App, supported by Wounds UK, makes best practice and formulary compliance easy. The digital solution gives clinicians instant access to the Trust’s wound management guidelines and recommended formulary products. Available on iOS and Android mobile devices at the point of care.

The Silhouette digital wound assessment system, developed by ARANZ Medical, makes it possible to image, measure and chart wound healing progress at the point of care. The digital solution gives clinicians secure, remote access to wound status data to support integrated care and new models of care.

3 ways to discover more…

1/ Find us at stand 73 at Wounds UK Harrogate. Book a Digital Technologies for Wound Care demo meeting with Entec Health 

2/ Learn more on the successful implementation of the Wound Care Buddy App at Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Trust here. 

3/ Check out our videos on innovative healthcare technologies for wound care
transformation. 

Look forward to seeing you at Wounds UK Harrogate 2018.

Best wishes,

Entec Health Team

Email: sales@entechealth.com
www.entechealth.com

Wound Care Buddy App © Entec Health Limited April 2017 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Wounds UK are delighted to announce that they will be supporting the Wound Care Buddy App, a new mobile app launched by Entec Health Limited.

Entec Health and Wounds UK share a mission to promote best practice in wound care, through a variety of innovative and accessible resources.

The Wound Care Buddy App is a new cloud-based service developed and hosted by Entec Health. This platform allows organisations to tailor their own content providing fast and easy access to their organisation’s wound management guidelines and formulary product listing on mobile devices at the point of care.

Wound Care Buddy App - Sample Home Screen

© Entec Health Limited

Watch the Wound Care Buddy App video here

Wounds UK are pleased to be supporting the introduction and availability of the App which embraces the advantages of digital health to facilitate standardised care and enhanced outcomes.

Rob Yates, Managing Director, Wounds UK said “The team at Wounds UK have been impressed by the technology developed by Entec Health. For us, it was clear to see the clinical and practical benefits that the Wound Care Buddy App offers clinical staff and service providers. We are therefore very pleased to be supporting Entec Health in this exciting venture and look forward to facilitating its wider use and adoption around the UK.”

The App is aimed at supporting the multi-disciplinary team at the forefront of wound care services, including TVNs, District Nurses, Practice Nurses and Link Nurses.

The Wound Care Buddy App offers several benefits:

• equips and empowers wound care teams to achieve consistency, best practice and compliance with formulary
• increases efficiency and independence of nursing staff as essential information is available instantly when treating patients
• generates insightful analytics to demonstrate user engagement by content area

Achala Patel, Managing Director, Entec Health added “I am very excited to have Wounds UK supporting the Wound Care Buddy App. Wounds UK is one of the most respected organisations in the sector for professional education. Entec Health is proud to work with Wounds UK to put innovation in the hands of health professionals, to enable better ways of working and support advances in patient care.”

Read about Hounslow & Richmond Community NHS Trust’s successful implementation of the Wound Care Buddy App

Contact Entec Health for further details:

Email sales@entechealth.com

Visit Wound Care Buddy App website

Copyright Wound Care Buddy App © Entec Health Limited April 2017 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Entec Health is excited to present the New Generation of Silhouette, featuring SilhouetteStar2, SilhouetteLite+ and SilhouetteLite. The new Silhouette suite enables wound care specialists to assess patient wound outcomes in a range of care settings using digital wound imaging with the option of 3D or 2D wound measurement.

The wound data collected by the Silhouette devices is synchronised with a centrally hosted database, SilhouetteCentral. SilhouetteCentral is a web-based application and can be accessed remotely when a secure network connection is available. The point of care wound assessment device options include the SilhouetteStar2 3D measurement wireless camera, SilhouetteLite+ Application and 2D measurement Sensor for iPad/iPhone and the SilhouetteLite App for iOS devices.

Watch the Silhouette New Generation Suite video to learn more 

Silhouette New Generation overview video

To learn more, head to our Silhouette New Generation webpage to watch our video demonstrations

The Silhouette solution offers the following benefits to NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers: 

• Fast, easy, objective wound assessment at the point of care
• Supports outcomes-led practice for integrated, multi-disciplinary care of patients
• Enables organisations to empower and equip clinicians to achieve improvements in wound outcomes, safety, patient experience and cost effectiveness

Silhouette is a registered trademark of ARANZ Healthcare Limited