Emergency care: If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please continue to call 999 as normal.
Hospital appointments: Patients should continue to attend planned appointments unless contacted directly by their care team.
Non-emergency care: If you need urgent medical advice but it is not a life-threatening emergency, please continue to use NHS 111.
Contacting our services: Some email communications and online services may be affected. If your enquiry is urgent, please contact the relevant service by telephone rather than email where possible.
Our Tissue Viability team provides specialist advice on wound care management and pressure ulcer prevention.
Our Tissue Viability team provides specialist advice on wound care management and pressure ulcer prevention.
Pressure ulcers (also known as bed sores) is skin damage that happens when the blood supply to your skin is affected. This can be on broken or unbroken skin.
They most commonly occur when body weight or devices cause pressures on vulnerable areas of skin.
Patients are more at risk of getting a pressure ulcer if they have reduced mobility or wearing a device such as a plaster cast.
Opening hours
7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (closed bank holidays)
Our team support patients within the hospital (inpatients) via internal referrals.