Guideline Profile : Wound management

The Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System Area Prescribing Committee has agreed a change in the debridment products for use in wound management. Alprep® wlll replace Debrisoft® in the Surrey Heartlands Wound Management Formulary

The Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System Area Prescribing Committee approved the updated antimicrobial dressings pathway

For information on locally preferred dressings please refer to the Wound Management Formulary (left)

There is also a Teamnet page for hosting a variety of local and national wound care resources.

Barrier creams
The following changes to locally preferred barrier creams have been agreed (Aug 22):

• Derma Protective Plus Skin Protectant will replace Proshield
• MediDerma S Barrier Cream (28g) will replace Cavilon cream (28g)

Derma Protective Plus Skin protectant - GREEN
Medi-Derma S Barrier Cream - GREEN
Cavilon Spray - GREEN
Cavilon no sting barrier film foam applicator - GREEN

Proshield Plus Skin Protective - NON-FORMULARY
Cavilon Cream - NON-FORMULARY
 

ONPOS is  the Online Non Prescription Ordering Service from Coloplast. Only wound management items  listed in the Wound Management Formulary can be ordered from ONPOS.

A series of ONPOS user manuals have been provided below.

Wound management items can be provided via ONPOS when a patient is receiving ongoing care from a nurse (or other member of the healthcare team) who is applying the drerssings:

• in a treatment clinic
• a practice nursing home
• in their own home

CCGs pay for the dressings ordered via ONPOS for their population. 

NOTE - CSH Surrey Community Nurses working within Surrey Downs CCG have a separate dressing supply service and hold their own budget for woundcare