Author Profiles

Mark Collier B.A (Hons), RGN, ONC, RCNT, RNT.,
Lead Nurse Consultant – Tissue Viability, United Lincolnshire Hospitals

Mark qualified as a Registered General Nurse in Shropshire in 1982, going on to specialise in Orthopaedic Nursing at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Since then he has been actively involved in a variety of settings, caring for patients with the full range of orthopaedic conditions.

Subsequently Mark moved into teaching and spent four years as a specialist Orthopaedic Tutor at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, before teaching Project 2000 Nursing Students at the North London College of Health Studies. In 1992 he was appointed as the first Nurse Consultant – Tissue Viability in the United Kingdom [at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge].

Whilst a Nurse Consultant/Senior Lecturer (1997 to 2002) – Tissue Viability at the Centre for Research and the Implementation of Clinical Practice (CRICP) he remained actively involved in clinical, educational and research activities every working day (and night!). He also led the development of an interactive CD ROM distance-learning package about the management of patients with leg ulceration. In his current post he is strategically responsible for the development of all Tissue Viability services within United Lincolnshire Hospitals as well as clinically and educationally responsible and the lead for relevant research projects in four hospitals within south Lincolnshire. In 2003, he became the first nurse in Lincolnshire to successfully complete the Independent Nurse Prescribing Course. In his own time Mark’s PhD studies are investigating ‘the development of a new risk assessment tool that can assist with the identification of patients at risk of developing heel pressure ulcers’ in Orthopaedic inpatient settings - therefore combining both of his major professional interests.

By way of relaxation, Mark enjoys spending time with his family, photography, music and sport, especially the opportunity to follow his ‘home’ football team – Liverpool F.C.

Sylvie Hampton MA BSc (Hons) DpSN RGN –
Tissue Viability Consultancy Services Ltd, Eastbourne

Sylvie is a nurse with 15 years experience as a specialist in tissue viability.

Sylvie is a co-director of Tissue Viability Consultancy Services, a multi-disciplinary consultancy which for over nine years has been providing tissue viability services to the private sector, the NHS and industry. Sylvie’s experience has led her to undertake many Expert Witness cases for the Civil Court, Crown Court, Coroner’s Court and for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Sylvie won the Dr Emslie prize for ‘Excellence in compassionate nursing’ and the British Journal of Nursing Wound Care Awards for her work in teaching Health Care Assistance pressure ulcer prevention, as well as earning two highly commended prizes in Wound Care for 2006 and 2007. She also sat on the examination board for Eastbourne District General Hospital for three years from 1991 to 1994.

Sylvie is regularly invited to speak at conferences and study days, both nationally and internationally, and has been responsible for individually arranging four national conferences in wound care and was responsible for the organisation of a tissue viability conference in Bulgaria in 2000.

Sylvie has published over 250 articles, written and designed substantial training packages and has co-authored ‘Tissue Viability, a Comprehensive Guide’ and also the first Dictionary of Wound Care.

Paul Chadwick MSc –
Principal Podiatrist, Salford NHS

Paul qualified in 1990 from the Northern College of Chiropody working alongside such luminaries as Martin Fox and Louise Morris and was lectured to by Louise Stuart.

Most of Paul’s work around diabetes has been carried out in Salford. He started work here in 1995 as a Senior 1 in high-risk liaison that involved developing care pathways and integrated working across the hospital and community trusts.

Through the ongoing implementation of a patient held record, audit and foot care guidelines a whole system approach to the management of the diabetic foot has been achieved.

Paul is now a clinical lead for the high-risk foot with a team of nine podiatrists working in this area.

Paul completed a Masters degree in 2000 looking at patients knowledge around foot ulceration and Paul is half way through a PhD looking at the construction of painful diabetic neuropathy.

He has also chaired the group that developed the North West Clinical Guidelines and has published articles in a number of journals about the management of diabetic foot disease.