The Best Clinical Research Award

Wound care research is notoriously difficult, due to the heterogeneity of patients, large number of confounding factors and comorbidities, and difficulty in achieving blinding. This award is to celebrate those who have done their best to overcome these obstacles, and conduct excellent research possible in an inherently challenging field.

How has the nominee’s work contributed to the understanding of wound treatment or wound care practice?
Why is this contribution valuable?
How can these results benefit wound care in the future?

Best Diabetic Foot Intervention Award

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Foot ulcers in patients with diabetes are a common occurrence and without proper treatment can lead to amputation DFU. Clinicians working in this area have a crucial role in aiding wound healing, and preventing amputation, in patients who often have multiple comorbidities.

Any nurse or clinician working with diabetic foot ulcers should apply for this award. It is also open to any researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field.

How has the nominee’s work contributed to our knowledge or treatment of diabetic foot ulcers?
Why is this contribution valuable?
How can these results benefit wound care in the future?

The Best Research from a Developing Country Award

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Health-care research is essential to improving the health of the developing world; however, the financial resources are insufficient in many countries, combined with delays in presentation and lack of available staff. This award is open to researchers and clinicians from countries considered eligible in the HINARI programme, who have overcome these challenges to conduct high-level wound care research.

How has the nominee’s work contributed to improving health in developing countries?
Why is this contribution valuable?
What impact has the contribution had on wound care?
What evidence (if any) is there to support this contribution?

The Compression Therapy for Venous and Lymphatic Disorders Award

Health professionals working in the field are clear that venous and lymphatic disorders, and its gold-standard treatment, compression, demand a higher profile within tissue viability, and that everyone has the right to accessible and effective treatment.

This award celebrates practitioners who have made an outstanding contribution to their clinical practice, geographical region, or area of research.

How has the nominee contributed to the field of Compression therapy for venous and lymphatic disorders?
Why is this a valuable contribution?
How can these results benefit venous and lymphatic conditions in the future?

The Cost-effective Wound Management Award

Wound care, treatment and prevention consume large quantities of resources in terms of disposables, equipment and nursing time; however, there is still little objective evaluation of the economic burden of wound care on health services. Furthermore, health service costs may inadequately describe the total cost of care, as this burden falls increasingly outside the formal health services and onto patients and their families.

This category is open to any clinician or team who, through management initiatives, have demonstrated cost-effective wound care, or to health economists and researchers, who have helped to highlight the issues faced or proposed ways to address them.

How has this group/individual demonstrated or highlighted cost-effective wound care?
Why is this a valuable contribution?
How can this work benefit the greater wound care community?

Innovation in Wound Care Award

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Ranging from extending the boundaries of wound-care practice to setting up new services that improve patient care, nurses and clinicians are developing innovative services and approaches to existing problems in wound care. The category is open to both individuals and teams that have developed a genuinely innovative approach to wound care.

Entrants should be able to demonstrate outcomes that have benefited the wound care community.

For this category, please consider:

What area of need has the nominee addressed?
In what way is their approach innovative?
How has/will this benefit the wound care community?

Innovation in Chronic wound healing

Any wound that does not follow a normal healing trajectory can be described as chronic. These patients often have number of confounding factors and comorbidities. This award is to celebrate those who have overcome these obstacles and with a new treatment, protocol or research aided wound healing in these patients.

How has the nominee’s work contributed to the understanding of wound treatment or wound care practice?
Why is this contribution valuable?
How can these results benefit wound care in the future?

Innovation in Surgical Site Infection Award

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The prevention, early identification and treatment of surgical site infection is an extremely important area of wound care, that has led to improved outcomes and reduced hospitalisation. This award to recognise individuals and groups who’s work has led to decreases in surgical site infection reducing the burden on both the patient and the health-care system.

This award is to recognise the efforts of nurses, clinicians and researchers whose work has made a significant impact on patients care.

Describe the work the nominee has done to help reduce the risk/prevalence of surgical site infection?
Why is this contribution valuable?
How can this work benefit wound care in the future?

The Most Innovative Product Award

This category is open to all new technologies including wound dressings. We are looking for breakthrough technologies or dressings that have revolutionised wound care and have changed patient lives. The criteria for entry dictates that the product must be available in a minimum of three countries worldwide.

Michelle Deeth New Talent Award

Michelle devoted her life to the progress of wound healing both in the NHS as a Lead Tissue Viability Nurse and in Industry. Michelle has been widely cited by her many publications. She sadly died earlier this year. This award recognises her desire to encourage new talent to advance the cause of improving tissue viability

This award celebrates emerging talent within the field of tissue viability

For this award, please describe

1. The project and the outcomes you aimed to achieve
2. Tell us who was involved in the project for example how you engaged with patients, wider clinical teams / service users
3. Describe how your initiative improved patient care, impacted on you as a clinician
4. Describe the impact on the service provision and the clinicians involved
5. Describe any long-term impact, changes implemented as a result or next steps

The Pressure Care Award

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Pressure ulcer prevention is an extremely important area of wound care. Many are preventable and clinician working in this area have a crucial role in developing and implementing strategies that reduced pressure ulcer incidence. This is supported by researchers, who are constantly working to determine the aetiology of pressure ulcers and ways to help empower the clinicians.

Any nurse or clinician working in pressure care, who has gone above and beyond for their patients should apply for this award. It is also open to any researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field.

How has the nominee’s work contributed to the understanding of pressure wounds and pressure care?
Why is this contribution valuable?
How can these results benefit wound care in the future?

The Professional Education Award

This category is open to both clinicians and teams who have contributed towards enhancing and sharing best practice, rolling out and establishing competency programmes or delivering successful health-care campaigns that impact on patient care and support government initiatives.