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Rosemary Pudner discusses the impact that changes in the delivery of wound care have had on nurses working in the community.
Yvonne Franks discusses the use of low level LASER therapy in the management of chronic wounds.
Adele Atkinson discusses the different types of skin grafts seen in the community setting, healing rates and the use of dressings for both skin grafts and donor sites.
Alexandra Nielsen examines the literature surrounding the role and management of exudate from chronic wounds.
Vivien Ogden describes the need for collaboration between community nurses, doctors and chiropodists in order to offer optimum foot care to elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.
Yvonne Franks overviews the benefits of using VAC therapy in wound management and discusses the nursing issues around its use in practice.
Lynfa Edwards and Val Banks compare and contrast a variety of published pressure sore classification grading systems for use in the community.
Dr. Dibyesh Bannerjee discusses the causation of pilonidal sinus and modern treatments for this painful condition.
Jacky Edwards guides us through the mechanism of debridement.
Jacky Edwards RGN, BSc (Hons), PGDE, DPSN, ENB 264; 998; 870; N49 is a Lecturer–Practitioner, South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust/University of Manchester.
Article accepted for publication November 1999.