Grant allows Yorkshire wound study

18/09/2009

A Yorkshire university and NHS primary care trust are working together to study complex wounds after a £1.75 million grant.
The National Institute for Health Research has enabled the University of York's Department of Health Sciences and NHS Leeds Community Healthcare to fund a five-year research project into the care of leg ulcers and other complex wounds.
Joint leaders of the study will be Professor Nicky Cullum, leader of the wounds research group at the University of York, and Nikki Stubbs, the clinical team leader from the Leeds tissue viability service.
Nikki Stubbs said: "Complex wounds are ones that don't heal easily. They can be painful and the continuous care needed also means the lifestyle of the patient can be severely affected. The grant we've been given means that we can work with our patients to improve their care and their quality of life".
Over the first two years researchers will survey the care of people with complex wounds, and then establish whether a register of patients would be feasible and useful.
Creating such a register in Leeds would help the team gather information about treating wounds, which could be rolled out nationally if successful.
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