New lower limbs clinic

A new clinic to treat lower limb wounds opens at the Tessa Jowell Health Centre. Following a successful business case presentation to the Partnership Southwark Delivery Executive, a new clinic offering patients treatment and care for lower limb wounds opened in November at the Tessa Jowell Health Centre in South Southwark. The clinic is delivering impressive results for patients, reporting that many long-standing leg complaints are being resolved within weeks of regular appointments at the clinic. 

In planning the new lower limb service, the multidisciplinary team working through the Age Well workstream at Partnership Southwark considered what innovative measures they could take in line with national best practice guidance to improve patient experience and help people recover faster.

Patients' views on existing services throughout the borough and what would work better for them were heard. Many patients consulted highlighted the difficulties they often faced managing multiple medical and wellbeing appointments, particularly if they were often changed or cancelled. The new clinic goes some way to ensure that patients have regular, accessible appointments in a convenient location with the same specially trained team looking after them, and access to a social prescriber to support a holistic approach to care delivery.