Welcome to the Lymphoedema Network Northern Ireland

Key referral contacts

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Telephone: 028 9504 3318

Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Telephone: 028 2563 5202

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
Telephone: 028 92633737

Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Telephone: 028 3836 0443

Western Health and Social Care Trust
Telephone: 028 8283 3134

View full details on referrals

The Lymphoedema Network Northern Ireland (LNNI) was set up in February 2008 to oversee the development of lymphoedema services across Northern Ireland. 

Our stakeholders include patients, carers, the general public & organisations. Organisations in the network are from the statutory, voluntary, charitable and private sectors.
 
The network allows our stakeholders to have an active role in shaping future services.
 
This website provides the following information for patients, carers and health care professionals:
 

 

Launch of ‘2022 Best Practice Statement: holistic management of venous leg ulceration (second edition)’

Submitted by amccune on Mon, 2022-12-12 22:12

This Best Practice Statement (BPS) is an update of the Best Practice Statement: Holistic management of venous leg ulceration (Wounds UK, 2016).

The guidance considers the National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP,2020) Lower Limb Recommendations and updates the lower limb wound pathway (Atkin and Tickle, 2016; Wounds UK, 2016) to make it relevant for 2022 and beyond.

This document is for healthcare practitioners in all care settings who are treating patients with venous leg ulcers (VLUs).

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