Foot care experts are urging healthcare professionals to attend a webinar on lower limb assessment and treatment in a bid to reduce the number of amputations that take place each year. Titled ‘Upskilling the healthcare workforce in lower limb assessment and treatment’, the webinar will look at how the healthcare workforce can develop the skills necessary to meet the challenge of growing numbers of people requiring lower limb assessment and treatment. The National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) has highlighted the variation in lower limb assessment and treatment due to the focus on disease specific commissioning. The NWCSP aims to provide equal services for all people with lower limb threatening pathology. Speaker: Jayne Robbie – Specialist Podiatrist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University, and a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion.

Source: The Times January 11, 2024 13:14 UTC