This is a secondary driver from safe clinical and care processes for pressure ulcer prevention, assessment, and treatment within the Pressure Ulcers driver diagram
Change ideas
The examples below show how this secondary driver can be implemented in practice. Additional change ideas can be found in the Pressure Ulcers driver diagram
Practitioner:
- Timely identification and effective management of nutritional risk to support pressure ulcer prevention and management
Team:
- Locally defined criteria and process for pressure ulcer photography to inform wound management
Organisation:
- Access to podiatry for specialist advice for below ankle wounds
- Locally defined criteria and process for specialist review and intervention
Evidence and resources
- Institute of Medical Illustrators. Photography for wound management: Guide to best practice [online]. 2025
- Langer G, Wan CS, Fink A, Schwingshackl L, Schoberer D. Nutritional interventions for preventing and treating pressure ulcers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2024;2
- NHS Education for Scotland. CPR for Feet [online]. 2026
- NHS Grampian. CPR for Feet Campaign [online].
- O’Regan R, MacDonald R, Boyle JG, Hughes KA, McKenzie J. ‘CPR for Feet’ care bundle to improve foot assessment in inpatient diabetes. BMJ Open Quality. 2018;7
- Robertson H Stang D. CPR for Feet Campaign: A national campaign that has reduced rates of inpatient iatrogenic foot ulceration in people with diabetes across Scotland. The Diabetic Foot Journal. 2025;28(2),51-55