Skin Breakdown
The Silent Epidemic

Skin Breakdown

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Welcome to
the Smith & Nephew Foundation

The Smith & Nephew Foundation is an independently administered charitable trust supported by an eminent group of trustees.

The Foundation was established in 1938 and has been continually responsive to the changing research and educational needs of the nursing profession within the UK health care system. Over the years it has funded hundreds of nurses, enabling them to further their professional training and education and improve their clinical practice and patient outcomes in a range of specialties.

More recently, the Foundation has focussed its activities and funding specifically on the area of skin and tissue breakdown. We believe that a key component of nursing care lies in maintaining skin integrity by providing effective nursing interventions which enhance hygiene, skin care and tissue viability. However, the evidence base underpinning such interventions has been neglected and the Foundation is therefore targeting its research grants in order to develop research capacity in this important area.

Nurses can make an important contribution to progressing the art and science of skin care. By shaping a strategy for best practice in the prevention and treatment of skin and tissue breakdown at national and international level, the Foundation is playing a major role in developing research expertise within this field.

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