What is the Your Turn Campaign

Pressure sores are estimated to currently costs the NHS up to £4 billion a year *, yet reporting of their prevalence in our hospitals, care homes and in the community remains voluntary.

Your Turn is working with MPs, health professionals, patients and carers to make reporting of all incidents of pressure sores mandatory - to make clearly visible the scale of the issue, and ensure that the number of patients suffering from this painful condition is greatly reduced.

Your Turn are working politically to raise this issue on the healthcare agenda.

Your Turn are working with healthcare professionals providing them with an educational and awareness campaign that they can use locally to reduce pressure sore prevalence.

Your Turn are working with carers and patients to promote awareness and understanding of how pressure sores occur and how they can be avoided.

To find out more please visit the Your Turn website. Click here 

News

Visit us at the Wound Expo 2010 Business Design Centre, Islington, London on the 9th & 10th September.

If you would like to book in an appointment with us then email info@your-turn.org.uk, otherwise if you just pass by on the day pop in to say hello.

Your Turn's New Blog

Your Turn now have our first blog posting live on our website from Dr Michael Clark, Professional Advisor with the Tissue Viability Society. Take a look by clicking here.

If you would like to submit a guest blog for us to publish about the work you are doing with pressure care email info@your-turn.org.uk

* Clark M, Bours G, Defloor T. The prevalence of pressure ulcers in Europe. In Recent Advances in Tissue Viability (Ed M Clark), 2004, Quay Books, Salisbury.** Bennett, G. Dealey, C. & Posnett, J. (2004) the cost of pressure ulcers in the UK. Age and ageing, 33p230-235