Developing research capacity in the
field of skin and tissue breakdown
Skin Breakdown
The Silent Epidemic
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2005 Doctoral Nursing Research Studentship winner
Simon Palfreyman, Research Charge Nurse - Sheffield Vascular Institute, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Research Project: The measurement of health related quality of life for patients with venous leg ulcers, concentrating on the identification of those aspects of quality of life that are affected by therapies for venous leg ulcers, which will aid evaluation of treatments in cost effectiveness trials
Simon Palfreyman, a Research Charge Nurse for the past 9 years at the Sheffield Vascular Institute, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His research will focus on incorporating the views and values of patients into a tool that can be used to examine the impact of venous ulcers on quality of life. He aims to interview people with venous leg ulcers, assign values to the health states they describe and use these to develop a disease-specific outcome measure for venous ulcers.
He is undertaking his PhD within the Academic Vascular Unit and School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield.
Any questions? Email Simon Palfreyman.
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