Something exciting is happening in Wound Care Consultants.

Wound Care Consultants are about to expand their services.

There will be a clear, staged plan to scale Wound Care Consultants across three core pillars — Expert Witness, Clinical Services for patients and care companies, and Commercial/Partnerships — while protecting clinical quality, governance, and income stability.

The Principles: maintain medico-legal unbiased independence and rigour; embed wound care-informed practice for clients and nurses; standardise processes before scaling up; measuring outcomes and ensuring patient safety as primary success metrics.

We intend to:

• Build a structured Expert Witness Service Line with tiered offerings: rapid triage, full report, court-ready expert, and multidisciplinary complex case panels.

• Recruit and credential additional experts (tissue viability, lymphoedema, OTs, physiotherapists and dermatology) with Bond Solon–style training or equivalent; create a consultant panel with CVs, scope, fees, insured and availability.

• Standardise report templates, evidence checklists, and a secure case management workflow with version control and audit trail.

• Offer training and peer review: internal report peer-review, annual calibration exercises, and mock court testimony sessions.

• Protect impartiality: conflict-of-interest policy with fee transparency.

Clinical services

• Expand outpatient wound healing services and virtual wound care (telehealth + remote monitoring) with defined pathways: assessment → dressing plan → compression/lymphoedema management → escalation.

• Develop specialist packages: pressure ulcer prevention, complex lymphoedema management, post-op wound optimisation, home-visiting wound hub, seating advice, protection against falls, nutritional advice in wound care etc.

• Standardise clinical protocols, outcome measures (healing rate, time to heal, recurrence, patient-reported outcomes), and data capture for audits and publication.

• Train and credential advanced practitioners and nurse consultants; create a supervision structure with named clinical lead(s) for quality assurance.

• Ensure capacity for in-person urgent assessments and home visits via a rostering model with geographic catchment plans.

   

Commercial, partnerships and product roll-outs

• Formalise commercial offerings: consultancy (policy, governance), product trials and roll-outs with training packages, and paid education (CPD accredited).

• Build partnerships with care homes, NHS trusts, insurance/legal firms and medical device manufacturers for referral pathways and pilot projects.

• Undertake education in pressure ulcer prevention and wound care for Care Homes, Hospital, Community, Patients.

• Develop case studies and service evaluation packages to demonstrate clinical and economic impact.