The NHS spends £5bn a year treating chronic wounds, mostly caused by injury or surgery. The numbers affected are rising fast – so why is this such a low priority?
‘I got a little scar, an ulcer, but I thought nothing of it.” Lauren Brimble recalls the mark that appeared on her lower right leg 11 years ago. It seemed routine at the time, but it was the start of Brimble’s long struggle with wounds in different parts of her body. She says through gritted teeth that they are “uncomfortable, ugly and painful”: “They’re constantly there, and that bothers me.”
As she talks, a nurse is tending to her latest wound, on the inside of her left calf. Measuring 6.5cm long and 5.5cm wide, it resembles an orangey-red hole just below the knee: raw, angry and exposed. “It started off quite small – I’ve had it for two or three years now,” says Brimble, matter-of-factly.
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