Trudie Clarke RMN, RN, Dip N, MSc, PGCE

Trudie Clarke is the Lead Tissue Viability Nurse for the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, Wales, UK, having been a tissue viability nurse for over 30 years. Previously she was Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and The UK Tissue Viability Society, and an expert advisor to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Within Wales she is a former Chair of the All-Wales Tissue Viability Nurses Forum, Director of Education and Training for the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre.

Trudie has an honorary senior lecturer role with Cardiff University.

Trudie is a patron of the Lindsay leg Club Foundation.

Luxmi Dhoonmoon is a Nurse Consultant Tissue Viability working for London North West University Healthcare (LNWH) NHS trust. Luxmi completed her BSc (Tissue Viability Pathway) in 2010 and MSc Advanced Practice in 2013 at St Georges University of London and is currently enrolled on a PhD in Nursing studies. She is also a Professional Nurse Advocate and Queen’s Nurse. Passionate about wound care and with a passion for addressing inequity across all types of wounds she introduced the Skin tone tool across LNWH NHS trust to reduce harm across all skin tones and increase inclusivity in all wound assessments thus delivering equitable wound and PU care. She also leads a team of Tissue Viability Nurses. Luxmi won the Journal of Wound Care award for Best Clinical research in 2015 for making a difference in patients with chronic wounds while using topical oxygen therapy. She contributed to several case studies, best practice statements and research to enhance clinical evidence forming the future of practice. Luxmi has published several clinical evaluations on patient care and improvement and recently authored an article in Independent Nurse on Long Covid and self-care. She recently co-authored a best practice document with Wounds UK to reflect assessment of dark skin tone in practice. Luxmi's aim is to develop her clinical research further to improve public health and lower limb care in the community.

Jeannie qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1988, and whilst working within the Fracture Trauma Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, became passionately interested in wound healing and tissue repair. In 1996, Jeannie became the first Tissue Viability Nurse on the island of Ireland, and in 2010, the Lead Nurse for Tissue Viability within the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Jeannie has taught within the School of Nursing, Queens University Belfast for over 20 years, was Chair of the Society of Tissue Viability from 2021-2023 and now has the honour of working with ISTAP as their UK Director.

Dr. Daphne Hazell is a GP with a specialist interest in wound care. Her interest started in 2010 when working for a refugee service overseas, and continued on her return to the UK. Frustrated by the service design and overwhelm in her area, she started Homewoundcare to research and engage in ways to improve UK wound healing rates. Her work includes establishing a network of GP practices to proactively bring primary care into wound care research as well as running pilot services using new technologies.

Heather, a TVN for 17 years, is lead for Greater Glasgow and Clyde, covering both Acute (6000 beds) and Community. Heather has worked in numerous roles including cancer nurse specialist and nurse manager. She is a Scottish Ombudsman Adviser and Chair of the National Association of Tissue Viability Nurses Scotland.

Heather maintains a clinical role and is often heard saying ‘she has the best job in the NHS’. She presents and publishes on tissue viability related topics.

Outside work she is groom and truck driver for her daughter when competing in equestrian competitions. Heather also sings with the NHSGGC choir.

An Experienced Practitioner with a passion for quality improvement and innovation. A strong advocate for high quality, person focused care, with particular emphasis on preventative care, health education and individual empowerment. Awarded the Queens Nurse title for innovation and leadership in the community, including the development of a multi- award winning Leg Club©. Instrumental in the expansion of this evidenced based psychosocial model in the South of England. Expertise in leadership, team development and facilitator of change. Passionate about the value of Nursing, with nurses being a key ‘voice at the table’ in shaping the future of healthcare, with a strong focus on prevention.

Georgina has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, teaching and learning. Georgina trained and served as a military nurse within the British Army, serving in mainland UK and on operational duties until 2004, when she moved to the NHS. Georgina has held roles within the NHS such as community staff nurse, district nursing sister and modern matron, before coming into education in 2010. Georgina spent ten years at The University of Central Lancashire, most recently leading The Family, Community and Public Health portfolio, and has focused specifically on developing education in community and district nursing, as well as leg ulcer and lower limb care and management, whilst always maintaining an active role in clinical practice. Georgina is registered as a community specialist practitioner and V300 non-medical prescriber with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and holds a master’s degree in education (MEd). She is passionate about education as a foundation to support confident and competent clinical practice within the fields of tissue viability and lower limb care.

Since qualifying as a registered nurse in 2001, Katy has worked in a variety of posts across both primary and secondary care. After completing her Specialist Practitioner General Practice Nurse course, she became a practice teacher and avid promoter of educational opportunities within practice nursing, focusing her MSc dissertation on the subject area. Katy taught as an ad hoc lecturer on the general practice nurse foundation course, before taking up a full-time teaching post at the University of Central Lancashire in 2016. She currently works as an Academy teacher at Accelerate CIC, regularly works in clinical practice and is passionate about early intervention. Katy is a V300 non-medical prescriber, Queen’s Nurse and Chair of the RCN GPN Forum.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah has work within the NHS for 27 years with most of those years being within Community Nursing, where the obsession with lymphatics started. After training in Lymphoedema and working as part as Airedale NHS Trust Lymphoedema service, Sarah undertook the challenge of being the lead Lymphoedema specialist Nurse at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, providing Lymphoedema care for cancer and none cancer patients across Calderdale and Huddersfield including out of area patients, including covering Harrogate Lymphoedema service for 18 months, building a team of 6 specialist nurses and a active caseload of 2000. Sarah has a passion for lower leg healing, providing education and promoting self management, increasing lower leg healing rates from 21% within 12 weeks to consistently over 90% by encouraging early compression across community nursing services.