Our services

Tissue Viability

About the service

Working directly with patients and health care professionals, the Tissue Viability Service provides clinical expertise and advice on wound prevention and wound healing. We want to ensure that any patient who has an active wound or is at risk of developing wounds, receives the optimum care to enable effective healing and prevention of recurrence.

Complex or hard to heal wounds and associated diseases include pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, malignant wounds, lymphoedema or chronic oedema.

Our community-based service covers Bradford, Airedale/Wharfedale, Craven, Settle and Bentham. We support all health care professionals, patients, carers and family who require specialist support, advice and/or treatment.

Healthcare professionals requiring Tissue Viability support should please refer to the ‘for professionals’ tab below or view our tissue viability wound formulary here. We also offer bespoke support and training to clinicians.

How to access

You may need the support of our service if you:

have had a non-healing wound despite appropriate treatment for more than six weeks
are concerned that your wound is deteriorating rapidly despite treatment

The Tissue Viability Service does not accept direct referrals from patients. Please contact your primary health professional, such as your GP or nurse, to discuss if referral to our service might be appropriate.

We accept referrals for any patient registered with a GP in Bradford, Airedale/Wharfedale, Craven, Settle and Bentham.

How to find us

Leg ulcer clinics

Keighley Health Centre, Oakworth Road, Keighley, BD21 1SA – 01535 606111
Westwood Park Diagnostic and Treatment Centre and Community Hospital, Off Swift Drive, Cooper Lane, Bradford, BD16 3NL – 01274 425990
Shipley Health Centre, Alesandra Road, Shipley, BD18 3EG – 01274 531153

Wound healing clinics

Keighley Health Centre, Oakworth Road, Keighley, BD21 1SA – 01535 606111
Hillside Bridge Health Centre, 4 Butler Street West, Bradford, BD3 0BS – 01274 033888

Contact

How to contact us

Healthcare professionals and patients already known to the Tissue Viability team can contact us on 01274 221168 from 8.00am-5.00pm Monday -Friday, excluding bank holidays.

If you need to speak to a nurse urgently but do not need treatment in A&E, you can call the Single Point of Contact Duty Nurse on 01274 256131 any time.

Use the tabs below to explore this section further.

What to expect

Referral

All referrals into Tissue Viability will be triaged by a Tissue Viability Nurse and the referrer contacted within one working day. Please note that we work Monday to Friday and do not cover bank holidays.

Any referrals deemed to be urgent will be offered an appointment within two working days of triage.

Assessment/appointment

Patients who are invited to attend one of our leg ulcer clinics will be sent a letter prior to their appointment which will provide information about what to expect.

All of our clinics are in hight demand, so we ask that you inform us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend your appointment. Please use the contact number listed above.

After your appointment

If our Tissue Viability Team feel that your healing will best be supported by some self-care, you or your carer/family member will be given advice leaflets appropriate to your ongoing care at your appointment – this information is also in our self-care section below. You will also be supported until you or your carers are confident in your treatment.

Our team will review you at least every four weeks until you are healed. This could be to apply a dressing or compression hosiery/wraps. You will be provided will contact details for support outside of Tissue Viability working hours if needed.