Tissue Viability Service
Our Tissue Viability service offers guidance and advice to health care professionals who are involved in the management of complex wounds.
Tissue Viability is a specialist service that provides telephone/electronic advice and support to all healthcare professionals who are involved in the management of complex wounds. Face-to-face joint visits can also be arranged with the health care professional and patient where required.
The Tissue Viability Team also provides a range of education programmes to support health care professionals to deliver care in line with current best practice.
Urgent referrals will be processed within five working days, all routine referrals will be processed within six weeks.
Referral criteria
The Tissue Viability Team is a nurse-lead service supporting patients in the community providing specialist advice for the ongoing treatment and management of complex wounds. Referrals are made via a registered nurse or GP.
The referral criteria includes:
- complex non-healing wounds
- category 4 pressure ulcers
- deep/undermining category 3 pressure ulcers
- complex diabetic foot ulcers (in conjunction with podiatry)
- ischaemic limbs
- end of life wounds that are affecting death with dignity i.e. very leaky/malodourous
- self-harm wounds
- human bites
- complex burns
- difficult to manage fungating tumours
- difficult to manage PEG sites
- unmanaged incontinence associated dermatitis
Criteria exclusion
None stated.
How to access this service
Referrals are made via any healthcare professional such as a GP or nurse.
Accessing the service:
- LPT Community Health Services, Single Point of Access (SPA)
- SystmOne users can directly refer into the SystmOne ‘LLR Tissue Viability Service’ unit using the link the tissue viability
- Nursing homes can refer via llr.tissueviability@nhs.net, using subject heading ‘Tissue Viability Referral’
- Practice nurses using PRISM to use new Tissue Viability PRISM pathway
- Practice nurses using EMIS to refer via llr.tissueviability@nhs.net, using subject heading ‘Tissue Viability Referral’
What conditions do you cover
- complex non-healing wounds
- category 4 pressure ulcers
- deep/undermining category 3 pressure ulcers
- complex diabetic foot ulcers (in conjunction with podiatry)
- ischaemic limbs
- end of life wounds that are affecting death with dignity i.e. very leaky/malodourous
- self-harm wounds
- human bites
- complex burns
- difficult to manage fungating tumours
- difficult to manage PEG sites
- unmanaged incontinence associated dermatitis
Contact info
0300 300 1000 (referrers only)
Referrals
- GP
- hospital healthcare professional