Ms Angela Clough

Ms Clough qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1998 and graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) Honours degree from The University of Liverpool in 1999. Ms Clough has a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing and is a Registered Nurse Prescriber (V300). In 2015, Ms Clough completed her MSc in Skin Integrity Skills and Treatment at The University of Hertfordshire. Ms Clough started her nursing career working in Vascular Surgery, developing skills in surgical nursing, vascular conditions and improving her awareness of leg ulceration and the impact of circulation on skin integrity while consolidating her skills in fundamental nursing care. She then moved into the community, taking on the role of District Nurse, progressing to Team Leader. During this time, she developed further skills in wound prevention and management as well as refining skills in prioritisation, leadership and education.

In 2004, Ms Clough was appointed into her 1^st Tissue Viability Nurse role across a large multi-hospital site NHS Organisation. As the Tissue Viability Nurse within a large hospital Trust, Ms Clough developed pathways for improvement in pressure ulcer prevention and management and general wound management. Throughout this time, Ms Clough was the Trust Tissue Viability expert to support all inquests that required the clinical expertise oversight and was the author of the Trust Wound Care Guidelines, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Guidelines and Larval Therapy Guidelines and coordinated large programmes of education and training across the organisation.

In 2016, Ms Clough moved to become the lead nurse over an integrated hospital and community tissue viability service. Here she led on the strategic and operational aspects of tissue viability and the service, as well as the clinical lead. All relevant documents, including Policies, Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures were authored by her. All hands on clinical training and education was coordinated and delivered by Ms Clough. Ms Clough has taken an active role in supporting national work including the National Pressure Ulcer Recommendations through the National Wound Care Strategy. In her current role, Ms Clough directly, oversees all aspects of quality of care in relation to pressure ulcers, wound care, falls, complex patients, enhanced care providing direct clinical expertise for the most vulnerable patients, including dementia and safeguarding.

Ms Clough is passionate about quality care, pressure ulcer prevention and appropriate and safe wound management across both the hospital and community settings.

Ms Clough is currently responsible for several services supporting our most vulnerable patients, including tissue viability, falls, enhanced care, dementia and safeguarding. Prior to this role, she worked for 18 months as an Assistant Director of Nursing within the community division, with responsibility for nursing and therapy services across the division to ensure safe and appropriate care was provided for our patients.

Ms Clough has provided education relating to all aspects of tissue viability for over 20 years across many settings and has presented at national and local conferences. She has been published and supported publication of a number of articles and papers across the speciality, including as a tissue viability expert for NHS Resolution and their publication on clinical negligence claims in Emergency Departments in England, specifically relating to hospital acquired pressure ulcers and falls.