Dressings optimisation strategy: Meeting the needs of the patient and the population

Abstract

A managed procurement-based system for the delivery of wound care dressings provides clinical, financial and systemic benefits to the local healthcare economy while meeting the needs of individual patients and supporting informed clinical autonomy. The need for a system and budget that are responsive to local population and service changes, and the potential burden on community nurses to transport dressings can create a challenge. The authors argue that despite these limitations, the benefits are such that questioning current processes by delivering a managed procurement solution is an asset to patients, clinicians and the local health-care economy.