An NHS England programme delivered by the Health Innovation Network
In March 2025, the programme will come to a close, but this website is accessible until June 2025.
Health and care professionals can access NWCSP resources by signing up to the Improving Wound Care: Building on the NWCSP FutureNHS workspace – the new home of the resources due to go live shortly.
About the Programme
The National Wound Care Strategy programme (NWCSP) is commissioned by NHS England to improve care for people with wounds.
NWCSP Publications
We are developing a range of resources to help health and care professionals deliver better wound care and to help patients and carers understand what good care looks like and how to help care for their wounds.
Improving Wound Care
We are working with hospitals, community hospitals, community nursing, general practice, care homes and home care providers in our First Tranche Implementation sites to understand the challenges and develop solutions for improving wound care.
Information for patients
These patient resources cover a variety of wound care topics.
Get involved
If you are based in England, sign up to one of our stakeholder forums and take part in our consultations to help us improve wound care together.
Meet the team
Get to know our team members.
News
Get the latest news updates from NWCSP.
NWCSP webinar: understanding the pressure ulcer categorisation changes (15th February 1-2pm)
The NWCSP Clinical Recommendations and Pathway include changes to the process for pressure ulcer categorisation, including discontinuing the use of...
Updated NHS Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework now available
We welcome the refreshed Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework published by NHS England at the end of November 2023 and are delighted to...
Clinical resources
Information about pressure ulcers, lower limb wounds and surgical wounds for health and care professionals, people with wounds and their carers.
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Evidence-based Wound Care
Rachael Lee, NWCSP Acting Programme Manager, discusses the challenges in wound care provision and the efforts to enhance dedicated lower limb services in this Open Access Government article: #WoundCare #LowerLimb @OpenAccessGov
We cannot remove uncertainty from clinical decision-making but we can reduce it through evidence to inform our practice. Our Engaging with Evidence guide will help health and care professionals understand different types of evidence for #WoundCare: https://nationalwoundcarestrategy.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Engaging-with-Evidence-for-Wound-Care-8Nov22-final.pdf
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