The Tissue Viability Service provides specialist wound management advice to residents living in and registered with a Coventry GP.

We can support you in wound management to assist you in providing high quality clinical and cost effective care.

The Tissue Viability team is led by Louise McKeeney, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, BSc, RN, DPSN, DPSN CHS, and a team of experienced wound care Sisters, Wound Clinic staff, Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.

The Tissue Viability team offers:

• Clinical wounds assessment
• Home visits
• Wound clinics
• Training and education
• Advice on wound management

Referrals

All patients are referred to us by an accredited referrer such as an allied health professional, hospital consultant or GP. Patients and their carers can also refer themselves. Please contact the service if you would like further advice and information on referrals.

To make a referral, please send referral form through via Central Booking Service tel 0300 200 0011 or the NHS eReferral Service.

Referral:

If the patient is housebound and/or meets the criteria a Health care professional to complete attached EMIS referral form (see link right)

Email to: OOH.ISPA@uhcw.nhs.uk

Contact us:

Tissue Viability Service
Longford Primary Care Trust
Longford Road
Coventry CV6 6DR
Tel: 024 7664 6717
Fax: 024 7664 6718
Email: tissue.viability@covwarkpt.nhs.uk

Please note: the following advice relates to all areas of Warwickshire

For Community Services including Community Tissue Viability Team and Leg Ulcer please contact:

• iSPA on 01926 600818, option 1, option 1

Referral Process

For a referral to the Warwickshire Community Tissue Viability Team please contact:

• iSPA on 01926600818 option 1, option 1 and ask for a Community Tissue Viability referral form (or download it here)
• Once this has been completed email the form to: ispa@swft.nhs.uk

Services Provided

Tissue viability referrals can be made for patients under the care of SWFT and known to District Nursing teams with wounds that:

• fail to progress or where infection, pain, odour, exudate or necrotic tissue is a management problem
• have a complex aetiology
• require complex or advanced therapies e.g. topical negative pressure or larvae
• that fail to progress or deteriorate despite appropriate intervention
• that is outside a practitioner’s competence

Exclusion criteria

• Patients that have had no prior wound assessment by the referring clinician
• Patients with cellulitis or leg ulcers: referrals should be made to the leg ulcer service
• Patient’s with skin conditions but no open wounds: referral should be made to Dermatology
• Foot ulcers: refer to podiatry via email to: PODIATRYREFERRALS@SWFT.NHS.UK
• Patients with wounds that are healing as expected
• Patients previously seen by the tissue viability team who have no new identified wound related complications.

NB: The Tissue Viability team does not provide a compression bandaging or dressing service.

Referrals can be made by:

• Any member of the MDT for patients under the care of SWFT.
• Self-referral by patients in the community if under the care of a SWFT team.
• Nursing home staff & GP staff for telephone advice if the patients wounds meet the above criteria.

Contact us:

Warwick Hospital Tissue Viability Team
Tel: +44 (0)1926 495321 ext 4115

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