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2024 Conference: Welcome to Platinum Partner Mölnlycke
Thursday, November 23
Planning for the Wounds Australia 2024 Conference in Gold Coast in October is progressing well, with exciting developments in programming, partnerships...
Literary Award winners announced
Tuesday, November 21
Winners of the 2023 Wounds Australia Literary Awards have been announced in the latest edition of Wound Practice and Research (WPR) Journal.

The...
Meet Associate Professor Christina Parker
Monday, November 20
Wounds Australia represents some of the best wound care professionals, researchers and educators in the country and they generously share their insights...
Promote Pressure Injury Awareness on STOP PI Day 2023
Monday, November 13
STOP PI Day on Thursday 16 November is a great opportunity to spotlight the global problem of pressure injury (PI). To mark the day, we’ve put together...
Hot off the press: the latest edition of WPR Journal
Tuesday, October 24
Have you explored the online open access September 2023 edition of Wound Practice and Research Journal yet?

In the official Wounds Australia journal,...
How do diabetes-related foot ulcers affect mobility - and treatment?
Tuesday, October 24
Interdisciplinary high risk foot services are known to improve healing outcomes for people with diabetes-related foot ulcers, and in-person attendance...
Could social media help prevent diabetes-related foot ulcers?
Tuesday, October 24
Foot ulceration persists as a serious health threat in people with diabetes (PWD), in part due to poor support for self-management.

In the latest...
Coloplast Case Report Challenge entries open
Tuesday, September 26
Entries to the Coloplast Case Report Challenge – a joint initiative with Wounds Australia – are now open.

The Challenge invites healthcare...
Another Wound Awareness Week, another winner!
Monday, September 25
Thanks to everyone who took part in Wound Awareness Week 2023 (4-10 September) – and what a week it was.

Whether you hosted a morning tea,...
The healing begins: Australian Government announces first ever wound care products support scheme
Tuesday, May 9
On Tuesday 9 May 2023, Australian Treasurer The Hon Jim Chalmers MP announced a funded Wound Consumables Scheme as...
READ: Big Oozie Bake Off registrations open soon!
Tuesday, April 11
The Big Oozie Bake Off morning tea fired appetites and imaginations during Wound Awareness Week 2022, as the incredible creations pictured below show....
READ: Support Worldwide STOP Pressure Injury Day
Tuesday, November 22
Get involved in Worldwide STOP Pressure Injury Day and help raise awareness of these potentially life-changing wounds.
Worldwide Stop Pressure Injury...
WATCH: Meet the delegate @Wounds Australia 2022 Conference
Tuesday, November 22
Around 800 delegates came to the Wounds Australia 2022 Conference in Sydney in September... and it's time to meet one of them!

Ana Thapa is...
READ: Wounds Australia Budget response makes headlines
Wednesday, November 2
This story in industry news outlet Aged Care News explores our reaction to the recent Federal Budget 2022/23.

Thanks to Aged Care News for covering...
MEDIA RELEASE: A fair and realistic budget – but more work to be done in wound care
Wednesday, October 26
While reducing out-of-pocket costs of medicine is a positive step forward, more should be done to support Australians struggling to access wound care....
WATCH: Wound Awareness Week 2022 on ABC News
Thursday, September 8

It’s been a whirlwind Wound Awareness Week, but Wounds Australia Chair Hayley Ryan found the time to drop by the ABC studios in Sydney to talk...
READ: Senator David Pocock joins our community forum
Thursday, August 25
A big thank you to Independent ACT Senator David Pocock for joining us last week at a community forum to explore our country’s chronic wounds problem,...
READ: Building consensus for system-level change
Monday, August 22
A key part of Wounds Australia’s role as a national peak body is working with policymakers to effect system-level change that brings about real and...
READ: Wounds Australia meets Leanne Castley MLA in Wound Awareness Week
Saturday, August 20
Our meetings with policymakers continued this week, with Wound Awareness Week Ambassador Professor Fiona Wood AM sitting down with Leanne Castley MLA,...
READ: Wound Champion Lyn Prior shares her story
Friday, August 19
Lyn from Eudunda in South Australia has been dealing with an open wound on her leg for nearly two years. Lyn’s wound grew in size while dressing...
LISTEN: Wound Champion Jenna Allen shares her story with 5AA radio
Wednesday, August 17
In this 10-minute interview with an Adelaide radio station, chronic wound sufferer Jenna describes her eight-year journey with the aftermath of a redback...
READ: Wounds Australia meets Minister Mark Butler MP
Wednesday, August 17
Wounds Australia was pleased to meet with The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care – pictured here with our Chair Hayley Ryan –...
GALLERY: Oozie takes over Australia!
Wednesday, August 17
The Big Oozie Bake Off has fired imaginations (and appetites) all over the country this week. Check out some of these incredible creations!

The...
MEDIA RELEASE: Chronic wounds are costing lives in aged care
Tuesday, August 16
For immediate release: 12.01am, Tuesday 16 August 2022

The solution to chronic wounds is bleeding obvious! That’s why Wounds Australia is...
Wounds Australia's 11 Point Plan to fight chronic wounds
Monday, August 15
Advocating for wound care policy change is a key part of Wounds Australia’s work. Improving the quality and efficacy of wound care in Australia won...
Embrace the ooze this Wound Awareness Week!
Sunday, August 14
Get together with clients, colleagues or friends to help raise awareness of chronic wounds.

Simply:
• Host a morning tea during Wound Awareness...
Meet Oozie T. Wound
Friday, August 12
This Wound Awareness Week, we're launching a fabulous new mascot who embodies the confronting nature of wounds in a fun and accessible way. Meet Oozie...
READ: Healing complex wounds and improving patient quality of life with innovative electrical stimulation wound therapy
Wednesday, December 1
By Linda Howell, Clinical Nurse Consultant

First published in WoundConnect, December 2021

The following case study is of a patient with a...
Aged Care Royal Commission a failure for wound care
Wednesday, March 17
Wounds Australia, the peak body for chronic wound prevention and management, says the Royal Commission into Aged Care has been an "almost complete...
Wounds Australia calls for inclusion of chronic wound dressings in MBS
Tuesday, February 2
Wounds Australia, the peak body for chronic wound prevention and management, welcomes yesterday’s decision by the Federal Government to rule out...
Front-line clinicians being injured by their PPE
Tuesday, May 5
The COVID-19 virus pandemic has led to unprecedent reports of device-related pressure injuries in patients and health care workers. The pressure injuries...
Royal Commission into Aged Care: update
Friday, March 27
The Royal Commission into Aged Care inquiry for Australian residential and home care services began in January 2019 and will continue until April 2020....
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