As the dust begins to settle after the recent general election and the associated political upheaval, despite the general enthusiasm for and some surprise at how the new Conservative/Liberal Government appear to be working together — ‘focusing on their commonalities instead of dwelling on their differences’ — it is clear that with the widely reported financial constraints that are to be placed on all public sector services in the next few years, including the National Health Service (NHS), all nurse specialists (including tissue viability nurses/services) will have to ‘prove their worth’ in some way.
