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Developing and implementing a wound care app to support best practice for community nursing

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Developing and implementing a wound care app to support best practice for community nursing

Achala Patel, Dawn Allam, Lillah Irwin
12 March 2019

This article describes the development of a wound care mobile App to support district and community nurses in delivering standardised wound care to patients. The article outlines the current challenges in wound care delivery, describes how the digital solution concept was developed, and explains how the wound care mobile App was implemented successfully by the Tissue Viability Team at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) NHS Trust.