Improving care through collaborative working in tissue viability

Abstract

Collaboration is necessary in order to achieve the government aim of seamless care, but research has tended to focus on inter-professional, rather than intra-professional collaboration. A group of tissue viability nursesfrom across Manchester formed a collaborative group to strengthen their influence across their trusts and to achieve improvements in care through targeting specific objectives. This article discusses the rationale for collaboration, and reports an evaluation of the tissue viability nurse group's first year.