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.