Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to allocate resources to implement the National Wound Care Strategy Programme’s recommendations on lower limb wound care.

The National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) has been allocated funding of £600,000 for 2023/24. The NWCSP is currently testing a business case for improving leg and foot ulcer care through seven regional implementation sites, which are funded for two years from 2021/22, with final site reports expected by the end of 2023 early 2024. An interim evaluation of the first four implementation sites was positive. The last of the initial seven implementation sites will complete in December 2023 and a final evaluation report will be published very soon after.