How community clinicians are optimising care plans with comprehensive wound data

Overview

Almost four million people in the United Kingdom have chronic wounds that take months or even years to heal. A primary obstacle facing nurses and wound care practitioners is a lack of data—the standardised measurements, records and insights that can inform care plans.

Minuteful for Wound, Healthy.io’s digital wound management solution, enables standardised measurement and documentation of wounds, and monitoring over time. With reliable data at their fingertips, clinicians can quickly identify deteriorating wounds, optimise care plans and enhance wound management processes.

Livewell Southwest is the first UK community health services provider to roll-out Minuteful for Wound at scale, with over 200 staff adopting the solution including District Nurses, Tissue Viability Nurses and Podiatrists.

The Challenge

Livewell Southwest provides NHS community healthcare services in Plymouth, South Hams and West Devon, including some of the highest areas of deprivation in the country. It serves 330,000 people, over 5,000 of whom suffer from chronic wounds. Many of those patients are housebound and treated at home by district nurses.

Livewell staff found that their use of paper rulers for wound assessments was resulting in significant unwarranted variability in measurements. They identified the need for standardised measurement, documentation, and management of wounds, to support informed clinical decision-making, care plan design, and staff upskilling.