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The Leg Club Approach
Aims
- To deliver research based wound management care in a friendly, non-threatening social environment.
- Provide an environment for staff development and a teaching resource for research based wound management.
- Provide continuity of care and a co-ordinated approach to its delivery.
- Adopt a simple flexible ‘drop in’ approach that encourages attendance for information and advice, facilitating early diagnosis and education.
- Minimise recurrence by systematic post-monitoring and ‘well leg’ checks.
- Achieve compliance to treatment through informed beliefs and modified behaviour.
Objectives
- To empower patients to become stakeholders in their own treatment, promoting sense of ownership and involvement.
- Meet the social needs of isolated patients by providing a mechanism for social interaction, empathy and peer support.
- Rebuild patient’s self-esteem and self-respect by de-stigmatising their condition.
- Facilitate an informal support network.
- Provide an informal forum for health promotion and education.
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The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation is a Registered Charity no. 1111259
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