The Wound Guy joins the Health-Shared Community
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The Wound Guy joins the Health-Shared Community

24 August 2021 In News By thewoundguy

The Wound Guy joins the Health-Shared Community

The Wound Guy Network working in partnership with health-shared.com virtual community team

 

The Wound Guy Network has started a collaborative partnership with health-shared.com, a Web App created by doctors from Imperial College London, to develop a virtual ‘Community of Practice’. As a partner, The Wound Guy Network hopes to make information for and about people with lower limb wounds more accessible.

Health-shared.com, was developed by a group of consultant vascular surgeons including Mr Usman Jaffer and Professor Alun Davies of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, who wanted the voice and expertise of the patient to be better represented in healthcare information.

Partnerships were established with key healthcare stakeholders so that relevant and engaging communities could be created as part of the Web App. The communities allow users to obtain information from a reliable, quality assured, online resource which has been established by healthcare providers and other people who have been in the same situation.

The person-centred, interactive, App is based on a ‘Community of Practice’ model (CoP) which allows users to personalise and curate their content and share their stories and experiences online. Users can search community portals relevant to their condition for information, get answers to their questions from experienced healthcare partners and discuss their own experiences.

The Wound Guy Network manages and supports two of these community portals: The Wound Guy Community, which focuses on care and treatment of all types of wounds, and The Compression Therapy Community, which aims to support people with chronic venous insufficiency and lymphoedema.

In addition to providing information for the App, the Wound Guy Network is supporting health-shared.com to engage with patients, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular and Venous disease and the Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU) at Imperial College London (led by Dr Austen El-Osta) to investigate the extent that CoPs can help patient activation, supported self-management and, ultimately, improved quality of life and clinical outcomes.

Gary Bain, Principal at The Wound Guy, said that “making information about wound management easy to understand and more accessible to patients and their carers is a key focus for The Wound Guy enterprise. To better achieve this purpose, it is our pleasure and privilege to collaborate with partners such as Health-shared and the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation”.

You can sign up either as a healthcare professional or patient here: https://health-shared.com/

 

Notes to editors and readers:

1) The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation exists to promote the national (UK) and international development of Leg Clubs. The Foundation also provides the necessary support and training for nurses to establish Leg Clubs and follow the Foundation’s guidelines, as well as ongoing training in new developments in leg care.

2) The Wound Guy is both an educational and clinical entity which is based in New South Wales, Australia. It endeavours to assist patients and their carers by educating and supporting the medical officers, nurses and allied health personnel who provide therapeutic relationships to the end-user.

 

For further information about The Wound Guy visit:   www.thewoundguy.com.au

 

For media enquiries please contact      Catherine Bain via The Wound Guy FaceBook page.

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