Look After Your Legs

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Look After Your Legs

• Anna Gibbins Professional Development Lead for
  Case Management
• Lynn Davis Tissue Viability Lead Nurse (West Glos)

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Over ViewLeg Ulcers The Reality

• They affect
• 1-2 of the British population
• People over 70
• Women more than men
• People with other health problems
• Those living alone
• Cost to the NHS 6-800,000,000 per annum
• Local published research establishes the positive
  effect of patient education and empowerment

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Back ground Look After Your Legs

• Recognition of inconsistent care delivery/skill
  levels in leg ulcer management, within Primary
  Care
• Lack of accommodation/time within practice to see
  patients
• Creation of leg shaped information leaflet and
  patient
• ambassador role
• Moving patient care from a non-clinical setting,
  closer to home
• Setting up the weekly Look After Your Legs
  clinic 2003
• Patient and public involvement with long term
  condition
• management.
• Patient empowerment via monthly support group

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Weekly nurse led clinic
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Patient and Public Involvement
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Benefits of service

• PCT
• Cost effective/accessible care
• Provides care closer to home
• Patients
• Enhanced quality of life
• Empowerment
• Independence
• Knowledge of long term condition
• Ambassadors able to teach both other patients
  and staff