Simplifying self-care considerations in lower limb compression
This Skill Zone session supports clinicians to confidently identify patients suitable for self-care compression, demonstrating how pathway-driven self-care can maintain clinical outcomes while improving continuity, adherence, and service efficiency. Participants will learn how to recognise the clinical and functional criteria for selecting patients suitable for self-care or supported self-care compression. The session also explores how self-care compression fits within evidence-based lower limb pathways without compromising outcomes. Through real-world case examples, attendees will see how this approach can improve healing, adherence and reduce clinical demand. In addition, hands-on practice in measuring and applying adjustable compression systems will help to build your confidence.
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Adam Mence
Senior Brand Manager (Compression)
Adam Mence is Senior Brand Manager for the Compression Portfolio at L&R, leading a portfolio of trusted heritage brands in wound care, including Actico®, Activa®, ActiLymph® hosiery, and ReadyWrap®. Passionate about collaboration and pathway-driven care, Adam is a strong advocate of L&R’s total compression solutions approach, supporting clinicians to deliver the right product for the right patient at the right time.
Nicola Fitzpatric
Regional Clinical Advisor
Nicola is a Regional Clinical Advisor and registered nurse with a strong clinical background rooted in the NHS. Supporting the South West region, she works closely with healthcare teams to improve clinical and patient outcomes through innovative, collaborative practice. Since joining L&R, Nicola has remained passionate about applying best practice to enable service-level transformation, enhance clinical outcomes, and deliver sustainable commercial savings for the NHS.
Amar Dhillon
Account Manager
Amar is an Account Manager with many years’ experience in the wound care space. He has extensive expertise in partnering with customers to support service-level transformation and improve patient outcomes. Passionate about driving best practice and championing best-in-class products, Amar is known for his collaborative approach and commitment to care across the NHS and industry landscape.
Charlotte Austen
Account Manager
Charlotte is a Regional Clinical Advisor and registered nurse with a strong clinical background rooted in the NHS. Supporting the South East region, she works closely with healthcare teams to improve clinical and patient outcomes through innovative, collaborative practice. Since joining L&R, Nicola has remained passionate about applying best practice to enable service-level transformation, enhance clinical outcomes, and deliver sustainable commercial savings for the NHS.
To immerse healthcare professionals in a fun, fairground‑themed learning experience that brings the ‘Share the Care’ approach to life. Through interactive, hands‑on activities, participants will explore the value of collaborative working, shared-care pathways, and the practical benefits of RespoSorb® Silicone Border as an effective solution for wound management. This engaging ‘fun at the fair’ zone will demonstrate how sharing responsibility, strengthening teamwork, and choosing the right dressing can streamline care, improve patient outcomes, and make delivering high‑quality wound care feel smoother, simpler, and more enjoyable – because it’s all fun at the fair when you Share the Care.
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Clare Carter
Senior Clinical Marketing Manager
Clare was a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist for 10 years, working in both acute and community settings. Clare has experience of managing patients with complex wounds, developing guidelines, pathways, and services. Clare has a passion for teaching and presenting and has presented at many National and International Wound Care Events. Clare joined Hartmann in 2017 and enjoys her Senior Clinical Marketing Manager Role which allows her to utilise her wound care experience.
Lisa Turle
Clinical Partnership Manager – Team Lead
Lisa has worked as a Tissue Viability Nurse for 20 years, leading services across hospital and community settings for 10 years. The role involved managing patients with complex wounds and provision of education and guidance in line with national strategies. Lisa then worked 4 years with wound care industry supporting wound efficiency, quality, and improvement programmes, through education, audit and evidence generation. Lisa joined Hartmann in 2023 and enjoys her Clinical Partnership Manager (Team Leader) Role which allows her to utilise her wound care experience.
A mixed reality journey into the future of antimicrobial stewardship with Sorbact Technology
Imagine a world where antimicrobials remain effective for generations to come. This interactive workshop uses mixed reality to explore alternative approaches to preventing wound infection. It encourages participants to move away from habitual practice to help protect traditional antimicrobial wound dressings as part of a broader antimicrobial stewardship strategy.
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Ashley Clydesdale
Brand Manager for Essity’s Wound Care Portfolio, Registered Nurse
Ashley Clydesdale is the Brand Manager for Essity’s Wound Care portfolio and a registered nurse with over 30 years of healthcare experience. Her background spans vascular and critical care nursing, specialist continence education, and contract management within the NHS. In her current role, Ashley combines her clinical expertise with marketing to lead educational initiatives and support evidence generation that enhances wound care practice.
Jane Mayes
Honorary Tissue Viability Nurse, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Global Clinical Education Manager, Essity
Jane has been a nurse for 30 years and feels privileged to have worked in a variety of clinical areas, including the hospice, district nursing, telephone triage and as a community tissue viability nurse within Leeds. She currently has an honorary tissue viability nurse contract at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. Jane also works as the global clinical education manager at Essity.
Reducing barriers to healing: practical debridement for everyday practice
How can common barriers to wound healing be managed effectively in everyday practice? In this interactive Skills Zone session, you will explore a simple, integrated model of wound bed preparation, demonstrating how effective debridement and cleansing can be achieved in a single step using UCS debridement.
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Cath Cavanagh
Practice Nurse, Wound and Lower Limb Lead, York Medical Group
Cath Cavanagh is an experienced General Practice Nurse with nearly 40 years of service in the NHS. Her career began in critical care, providing a strong clinical foundation that later supported her transition into the diverse field of practice nursing. Cath now specialises in wound and lower limb services and is a passionate advocate for the essential role of practice nurses in this area within primary care. She currently works in a large, multi-site GP surgery in York, where she leads a dedicated team delivering comprehensive wound and lower limb care. Through both her clinical leadership and day-to-day practice, Cath continues to champion high-quality, patient-centred care and the ongoing development of nursing roles in general practice.
Natalie Howard
Clinical Manager, medi UK
Natalie Howard, RGN, is a Clinical Manager at medi, providing clinical support and education to healthcare professionals and patients across the UK. She also holds an honorary Community Tissue Viability Nurse role in North East England. With over 21 years’ nursing experience, she developed a keen interest in wound care early in her career. She has a passion for lower limb care and compression therapy, alongside a special interest in patient education and health literacy. Her background in community nursing services, including her role as a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, has enabled her to develop strong practical and theoretical expertise that she shares with patients and clinicians in her current role.
Rachael Renton
Clinical Trainer, medi UK
Rachael Renton recently joined medi as a Clinical Trainer, bringing over 20 years’ nursing experience from the NHS. Having spent the last seven years in roles as a Community Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist and Service Lead, she developed a strong interest in chronic wound management and lower limb care. Rachael advocates a holistic approach to patient wellbeing, focusing on treating the individual as well as the wound. Through clinical education, she champions early intervention and encourages clinicians to engage with evidence-based pathways in daily practice to improve patients’ quality of life.
Beyond Barriers: how to step-up care for moderate-severe MASD
This interactive session will look at distinguishing between moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) and pressure ulcers and why this can be confusing, and how skin deterioration can occur rapidly if not managed appropriately. It will focus on recognising when simple barrier products are not enough and escalation is required, using shared management principles from the BPS.
The practical element will bring theory to life through the Peach model, demonstrating assessment and management strategies for mild–severe MASD. Delegates will explore where Flaminal fits, take part in hands-on product application, and engage in table-top FAQs designed to prompt discussion, share experiences, and address common clinical challenges.
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Kelly Hutchinson
Clinical Science Liaison Manager, Flen Health
Kelly is the Clinical Science Liaison Manager (UK&I) at Flen Health, where she draws on extensive clinical experience to support healthcare professionals in advancing wound care and tissue viability practice. Her nursing background spans a range of specialist roles, including Tissue Viability Nurse, Leg Ulcer Clinic Manager, and District Nurse, giving her a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and realities of wound management in diverse care settings.
Kelly continues to maintain active clinical insight through an honorary contract, enabling her to stay closely connected to frontline practice and emerging developments in healthcare. This ongoing clinical engagement strengthens her ability to translate evidence, support clinical decision‑making, and deliver meaningful education and insights to multidisciplinary teams.
Total Barrier Protection™: S.M.A.R.T. Care for MASD & MARSI
This session outlines a Total Barrier Protection Strategy for preventing and managing moisture-associated skin damage (MASD). It demonstrates how the S.M.A.R.T. tool supports national guidance, standardises care, and improves clinical decision-making. Using an evidence-based approach with barrier products and the S.M.A.R.T. framework helps reduce complications such as incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) and medical adhesive-related injuries (MARSI) while improving patient outcomes.
Attendees will also have the chance to play a board game to test and reinforce learning, and to assess skin damage in a practical way.
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Lizzie Wardle
Clinical Nurse Advisor, Medicareplus
Lizzie worked as a domiciliary carer for two years before starting a nursing degree. After qualifying as an adult nurse, she worked on a renal ward before moving into wound care. She now works as a clinical nurse advisor at Medicare Plus, providing clinical insight into product use and delivering educational sessions to clinicians on moisture-associated skin damage (MASD).
Claire Parsons
Clinical Nurse Advisor, Medicareplus
Claire Parsons has been nursing for nearly 30 years. Most of her career has been as a community nurse. She lived and worked in Australia as a wound specialist nurse and student facilitator for six years, and then came back to the UK in 2013 and went back to community nursing.
She now works as a clinical nurse advisor for Medicareplus, educating clinicians on moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) and the total barrier protection products that Medicareplus offers.
This session will help understanding of biofilm and its role in wound healing by clearly defining what biofilm is. Evidence-based strategies for accurately identifying and treating biofilm in clinical practice will be explored, with insights from real-world faculty case studies to aid clinical decision-making.
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Jennifer Hughes
TVN, The Wirral
Jennifer has been a registered nurse for 20 years after graduating from the University of Chester in 2006. She developed her passion for wound care as a newly qualified community nurse. After two years of being a proactive tissue viability link nurse, Jennifer secured a secondment in a neighbouring community tissue viability service and went on to become the lead specialist nurse in 2019. Jennifer continues to research, evaluate and develop education and clinical pathways to support healthcare professionals who are inexperienced with wound care, to become confident and competent in advanced wound care. She is driven to ensure all patients receive quality wound care support in their preferred care setting.
Diane Hayes
TVN, Birmingham Community
Diane has worked as a tissue viability nurse for Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust for 20 years, providing comprehensive assessments and support for patients and staff in community settings, including own homes, nursing homes and embedded units.
Before working as a tissue viability nurse, she was a district nurse, obtaining her degree in community health nursing in 1999.
Diane is an independent prescriber, and is passionate about preventing and treating wounds and achieving positive outcomes for patients. She is also a wound hygiene ambassador.
From Assessment to Action: Prioritising Wound Care Interventions
Effective wound care begins with a high quality holistic assessment – but the real challenge lies in translating those findings into clear, prioritised clinical actions. Mediq’s interactive Skills Zone session will equip clinicians with practical tools to move confidently from assessment to decision-making in everyday practice. Case studies will be highlighted, and delegates will be challenged to identify which interventions they feel should be prioritised and why. Through guided discussion participants will explore how to recognise clinically significant assessment findings, match priorities with evidence based interventions, apply structured frameworks to ensure safe, consistent care and make effective choices in time-pressured or resource-limited settings. This skill zone will be hands on, engaging, and grounded in practice, helping clinicians refine their clinical judgement and improve patient outcomes. Delegates will leave with clearer strategies and increased confidence in making patient-centred decisions that drive wound healing.
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Sharon Gardner
Clinical services manager for UK and Ireland, Mediq UK
Sharon has previously worked as a tissue viability specialist nurse for a large oncology trust and still works part time as a nurse practitioner in an urgent care walk in centre. Sharon is an independent nurse prescriber, a Queen’s Nurse, and is currently completing her masters. During the pandemic she commenced an honorary contract as a tissue viability nurse for a local trust and continues to work in the role currently.
Sharon provides clinical insight in all aspects within Mediq UK’s portfolio, including bespoke training and education for a variety of professionals and input to clinical marketing, as well as supporting trusts with clinical decision-making. Throughout her career within the NHS, she has enjoyed supporting and developing staff to enhance their skills and knowledge and continues to do this within her current role, especially in the field of oncology and skin integrity.
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