Staff at the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre have an unrivalled set of skills and expertise that add value to commercial organisations and the National Health Service.
Among the strengths of WWIC that are offered to both commercial organisations and the NHS are:
- General consultancy – with around 150 years’ cumulative experience in human wound healing WWIC staff are ideally placed to provide general advice upon market trends, key opinion leaders and constructive comments on product and service requirements.
- Focus groups bringing clinical and patient experience together to help you better understand product needs and requirements.
- Product development. WWIC has been proud to collaborate with commercial partners to jointly develop successful wound healing products.
- Product evaluation. WWIC has strengths at all stages of product evaluation, together we can
- Evaluate products in the laboratory to support claims for their mode of action.
- Evaluate products in clinical practice ranging from service evaluations to gain initial feedback from clinicians and patients through to advanced scientific designs such as the randomised controlled trial.
- Support clinical audit to evaluate changes in practice and to establish the burden of wounds upon the NHS.
- Able to develop health economic arguments to support the introduction of new products and processes.
- Review training materials intended for clinical and industry staff.
- Develop state of the art e-learning packages to better educate customers and clients upon wound healing issues.
- Directly provide training for industry staff, including visits to wound clinics, allowing you to better understand the challenges of wound healing in today’s healthcare.
Please contact Prof Michael Clark at
michael.clark@wwic.wales to informally discuss how WWIC could best support your organisation gain more from wound research, education, audit and consultancy.