The wound management pilot in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) aims to support people with chronic and complex wounds living in RACFs while building knowledge and skills of RACF staff to deliver evidence-based care.

This is achieved through a nurse led, in reach program that provides access to specialist wound advice and mentoring to support the effective assessment, care plan development and management for these patients in their usual place of residence, the RACF, thus reducing the requirement to transfer residents to hospital for additional clinical interventions.

For more information including how to refer, see Chronic Disease Service: Wound Management Pilot in RACFs under our funded services listings.

GCPHN fund a dedicated wound clinic led by a wound specialist GP and his team of highly trained nurses. The Chronic and Complex Wound Clinic support local general practitioners and their patients to improve health outcomes with people that have chronic, complex, recurrent, and debilitating wounds that seriously impact on their quality of life.

For more information including how to refer, see Chronic Disease Service: Chronic and Complex Wound Clinic under our funded services listings.

Primary Care Nurses

The Chronic Disease Wound Management Program aims to offer training and education that will increase confidence, knowledge and skills of nurses responsible for the care and management of patients living with chronic and/or complex wounds in the general practice or residential aged care settings.

Participants attend workshop style education sessions with a focus on wound assessment and management of patients with a chronic or complex wound modelled on the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) wound management module framework. Practical based workshops on compression therapy and wound dressings and products are offered to compliment the education sessions.

General Practitioners

GPs can participate in a Chronic Disease Wound Management CPD Activity which includes information on the impact of wounds, the wound healing process, patient and wound assessment, aetiology of wounds, wound bed preparation, management of the Diabetic foot and managing common acute wounds. The workshop also includes interactive compression therapy and wound dressing workshops.

To find the next education and training workshop, visit GCPHN events page.