Developing Effective Lower Limb Services

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Improving lower-limb services

Learn from NHS teams that have made change happen

Developed following detailed research with healthcare professionals working across lower-limb care, this practical one-day programme responds to your recurring challenges around delayed access, fragmented pathways, workforce competency and variation in care.

Hear practical presentations and NHS case studies covering:

Helping lower-limb patients reach the right service sooner: overcoming delays across the pathway
Redesigning an integrated lower-limb service: embedding Immediate and Necessary Care and connecting services
Developing a nurse-led varicose vein service: improving access to treatment
Developing an effective vascular pathway: improving referrals, escalation and continuity of care
Developing wound-care champions: strengthening community teams and consistency of care
Improving compression competency: addressing variation across community and primary care
Transforming care for housebound patients: using remote review and specialist support to improve outcomes
Supporting engagement among patients with complex needs: adapting care and encouraging engagement

Share your experience and learn from your peers with interactive sessions on:

Joining up lower-limb services to improve referrals and access: identifying where delays occur, sharing approaches to escalation and exploring how services can work better together.
Sharing practical approaches to improve engagement and concordance: exploring why patients disengage, what communication approaches work and how services can adapt care around individual needs.

Shared learning, better services

One day to learn, connect and take away new ideas

Step away from the day-to-day and spend a focused day with colleagues working across lower-limb care. This free to NHS national forum combines expert speakers, practical NHS experience and plenty of opportunity to meet and learn from your peers.

• Hear from expert speakers: gain insight from professionals working across lower-limb, community, vascular and podiatry services
• Make useful connections: meet colleagues from across the country, exchange experiences and grow your professional network
• Learn from your peers: use interactive discussions and Q&A to discover how others are tackling the same challenges
• Take away practical ideas: return to your service with new approaches, contacts and examples to share with your team
• Attend for free: NHS professionals can join at no cost, with refreshments and a networking lunch included

Invitation to sponsor or exhibit

Support the development of effective lower-limb services

This new national forum provides a valuable opportunity for providers working across wound care, compression, vascular assessment, lower-limb management and related technologies to engage with healthcare professionals responsible for developing and delivering lower-limb services.

The programme will bring together Tissue Viability Nurses and Leads, Lower Limb Leads and Specialist Nurses, Community Nursing Leads, Vascular Nurses and Podiatrists, with a strong focus on improving access, workforce competency, effective pathways and consistent patient care.

To find out more about the engagement and branding opportunities available in the exhibition and sponsorship packages, please email Ella Johns or call Ella on 01732 897788.

9.00	Registration and networking opportunity
9.30	Chair’s opening remarks
Improving access
9.40	Helping lower-limb patients reach the right service sooner: overcoming delays across the pathway Why do patients experience repeated treatment, delayed healing and late access to specialist care? Identifying the workforce, capacity, referral and communication barriers that cause patients to fall between services Defining an effective pathway: from first presentation to assessment and treatment Setting priorities for earlier intervention, clearer clinical ownership and more joined-up care
10.05	Case study: Redesigning an integrated lower-limb service Establishing a specialist service: making the case for change and selecting the right model Embedding Immediate and Necessary Care: standardising assessment and compression Connecting lower-limb, vascular and podiatry services: using MDT clinics and virtual consultation Sustaining the change: measuring outcomes, maintaining workforce competency and tackling ongoing variation Hazel Lewis, Leg Ulcer Clinical Lead and Hayley Hanahoe, Leg Ulcer Services, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
10.30	Questions and answers with your speakers
10.40	Sponsored presentation opportunity
11.10	Refreshments and networking break
11.30	Case study: Developing a nurse-led varicose vein service to improve access to treatment Establishing a nurse-led service to assess and treat patients with venous disease Developing standards, clinical criteria and appropriate patient-selection processes Providing local-anaesthetic, day-case treatment with vascular consultant support Lessons learnt: how was the change resourced and how has it been sustained? Jane Ramsay, Surgical Care Practitioner, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.55	Case study: Developing an effective vascular pathway for lower-limb patients Identifying which patients need vascular input and ensuring they are referred at the right time Improving the quality of referrals: providing the right information and asking the right questions Creating clearer links between community nursing, Tissue Viability and vascular services Developing escalation routes and maintaining continuity between acute and community care Matthew Allen, Consultant Lead Podiatrist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
12.20	Questions and answers with your speakers
12.30	Interactive discussion: Joining up lower-limb services to improve referrals and access Where do delays occur within your local referral pathway, and what have you done to address them? How do your community, primary-care, Tissue Viability and vascular teams currently communicate and share responsibility for patients? What approaches have helped your service identify, prioritise and escalate patients requiring specialist input? What practical ideas - such as multidisciplinary meetings or virtual case reviews—could improve collaboration within your service?
12.50	Networking lunch
Enabling your workforce
1.50	Case study: Developing wound-care champions to strengthen community teams Developing a wound-care champion network to provide local expertise and a clear link to Tissue Viability Maintaining competency through monthly education, mentoring and specialist support Supporting community nurses to manage more lower-limb patients effectively within their own teams What difference has it made? Impact on repeat referrals, specialist capacity and consistency of care
2.15	Improving compression competency across community and primary care How to put Immediate and Necessary Care into practice and avoiding unnecessary delays to compression Addressing variation in knowledge and practice across community and primary-care teams Bandaging versus hosiery and wraps – choosing the right approach for the patient Building clinician confidence and changing entrenched practice around compression
2.40	Questions and answers with your speakers
2.50	Refreshments and networking break
Overcoming barriers to care
3.10	Case study: Transforming care and improving outcomes for housebound patients Redesigning lower-limb care for patients who cannot attend clinic Using wound photography and remote review to support clinical decision-making What is the best approach? How tissue viability nurses can support community nurses How to reduce repeat referrals and unnecessary specialist home visits
3.35	Supporting engagement among patients with complex needs Understanding why some patients remove compression, decline treatment or repeatedly disengage Supporting people affected by mental health difficulties, addiction, homelessness or other complex circumstances Using practical communication and psychological approaches to encourage engagement Agreeing realistic treatment and self-management goals with the individual patient Rebecca Morgan, Team Lead, Wound Clinic Service, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
4.00	Questions and answers with your speakers
4.10	Interactive discussion: Sharing practical approaches to improve engagement and concordance Why do patients within your service decline, discontinue or disengage from treatment? Which communication approaches have helped patients engage with their care? How has your service adapted its support for patients whose needs are not met by conventional pathways? Which multidisciplinary approaches have helped when patients repeatedly decline recommended care?
4.30	Close of conference

Meet your speakers

Learn from professionals making change happen

Hear directly from healthcare professionals who are developing lower-limb services, improving pathways and finding practical ways to deliver more consistent care. The speakers will bring experience from across tissue viability, lower-limb services, community nursing, vascular care and podiatry, providing different perspectives from across the patient pathway.

Hazel Lewis

Leg Ulcer Clinical Lead

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Hayley Hanahoe

Leg Ulcer Services

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Jane Ramsay

Surgical Care Practitioner

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Matthew Allen

Consultant Lead Podiatrist

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Rebecca Morgan

Team Lead, Wound Clinic Service

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Call for speakers

To discuss speaking opportunities, please contact:

Sarah Kemm

Conference Producer

sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk

Pricing Structure

Free to attend for NHS, Charity and Public Sector attendees

All NHS attendees will receive lunch and refreshments, a CPD certificate of attendance and online access to the presentations.

Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day please email Ella Johns or call Ella on 01732 897788 for further details.

Although your place is free of charge failure to attend without written cancellation with at least 5 working days’ notice will result in a £100 charge. If your circumstances change and you find yourself no longer able to attend, please can you inform us in writing by emailing the bookings team 5 working days prior to the event taking place.

Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Venue details

Venue name: Holiday Inn, Leicester

Address: 129 St. Nicholas Circle, Leicester, LE1 5LX

Tel: 0116 482 1900

Holiday Inn® Leicester hotel is a 10-minute taxi ride (or 20-minute walk) from Leicester train station. The M1 motorway is just a 15-minute drive away, and the Highcross Rooftop car park is located a short walk from the hotel.

Parking

There is no hotel owned car park, however there are two nearby car parks, as follows:

The NCP St Nicholas Circle car park is located opposite the Holiday Inn Leicester, use location code 719347 for a guest discount. The car park postcode is LE1 4LF. The height limit for this car park is 2.05 meters. Please note, you must have the ECPparkbuddy app downloaded. Charges: 12 hours- £8.95 / 24 hours- £15.00.

Highcross Rooftop Car Park is a 7-minute walk to the hotel through Jubilee Square. The car park postcode is LE1 4AN. Tickets can be validated at hotel reception for a discounted price of £6 for 24 hours. Parking is then payable at the machines in the car park. This rate is based on a single exit. The height limit for this car park is 1.98 meters.

What happens once you have made your booking?

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking and you will be sent a formal confirmation. If you have not received this within 48 hours of making your booking please check your junk folder and then email the bookings team or call 01732 897788. .

Approximately one week prior to the conference you will be sent an email which will include all the final details for attendance on the day, including a final agenda and venue information.

Please inform us by writing to the bookings team if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

Reservations

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team.

Terms and Conditions

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

Conference changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

Certificate of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every attendee, as a record of continuing professional training and development.

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Who will attend?

Meet colleagues tackling the same challenges as you

This conference is designed for healthcare professionals involved in developing and delivering lower-limb services and improving pathways across primary, community and specialist care.

It will be particularly valuable for:

Tissue Viability Nurses and Leads
Lower Limb Leads and Specialist Nurses
Community and District Nursing Leads
Vascular Nurses
Podiatrists
Practice Nurses
Primary Care Nursing Leads

A new event from SBK Healthcare

SBK Healthcare brings NHS professionals together to share practical experience, learn from colleagues who are making change happen and take useful ideas back to their own services.

We spoke directly with healthcare professionals working across lower-limb services to understand what would make this forum valuable. Their experiences and priorities have helped shape this programme.

“It's about not reinventing the wheel. If you've got examples of where things have worked and where somebody's achieved – it would be great to share in that.”

“I am looking for ideas that I can take back to practice to implement. I want to heal more patients, and I want more patients to buy into their own self-care.”

“We need better communication and greater collaboration so patients get referred”

“Are there any services that are doing some projects or ways or pathways that speed up the healing process?”

“What are they doing with their patients regarding Immediate and Necessary Care, that would be the biggest thing. Are they all getting the same treatment?”

This conference provides practical examples of how NHS teams are making change happen - from redesigning lower-limb pathways and improving access to vascular care, to strengthening compression competency, supporting housebound and complex patients and improving engagement and concordance. Hear what other services have tried, what has worked and what they have learnt, share experiences with colleagues across the lower-limb pathway and leave with practical ideas you can take back and implement within your own service.

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