Active treatment of non-healing wounds in the community: Identifying people at risk of non-healing wounds. (Dowsett, 2023)

Dowsett C.

Wounds UK 2023;19(2): 46-50.

Non-healing wounds are common, have a negative impact on patients, increase workload for clinicians and are a source of rising costs for the NHS. Early identification of people who are at risk of non-healing is important to ensure best practice interventions including the use of active treatments. This article will discuss best practice recommendations from the new Wounds UK Best Practice Statement (BPS; Wounds UK, 2022) with a focus on patient assessment and identification of risk factors for non-healing wounds, as well as examples of early intervention with active treatments to improve patient outcomes.