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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to enforce compulsary reporting of pressure sore incidences by Trusts and Care Homes in the UK. More details
Submitted by Emma Sumner of Your Turn Campaign – Deadline to sign up by: 06 June 2010 – Signatures: 62
More details from petition creator
Pressure sores are estimated to currently cost the NHS up to £4 billion a year, with up to 1 in 5 hospital patients suffering from one, yet reporting of their prevalence in our hospitals, care homes and in the community remains voluntary and sporadic at best.
Your Turn is working with MPs, health professionals, patients and carers to make reporting of all incidents of pressure sores mandatory – to make clearly visible the scale of the issue, and ensure that the number of patients suffering from this painful and often fatal condition is greatly reduced.
A pilot scheme recently conducted in a UK Trust enforced mandatory reporting of pressure sores resulting in a decrease of occurrences. We are now looking to use this pilot as best practice for other Trusts to help strengthen the case for mandatory reporting.
We are working with health care professionals providing them with an educational awareness campaign that they can use locally to reduce pressure sore prevalence.
We are working with carers and patients to promote awareness and understanding of how pressure sores occur, and how they can be avoided.
Current signatories
Emma Sumner, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- john webb
- Miss Lauren Jenkins
- JEAN SAVAGE
- Helen Shoker
- stacey gregg
- jo knight
- William Haughton
- Victoria Warner
- tracy barker
- Jo-Anna Grove
- jacqueline smith
- Malcolm Mitchell
- damandeep hillyer
- Mita Unalkat
- Donna Allen
- Mary Blakemore
- Lisa Abbott
- Amy Oldfield
- Patricia Davies
- Lesley McDonagh
- Leanne Davies
- David Harries
- Sandra Malcolm
- bobby shoker
- Alison Aldridge
- Ann Ward
- Dalbir Shoker
- Tracy Gilmour
- Jatinder Shoker
- Mrs Margaret Crewe
- Robena Selby
- Penny Seymour
- Nisha Mejer
- louise mckeeney
- Julie Trudgian
- Fenella Burns
- Anne Kasica, the-shg.org
- Barbara Topley
- Sherrydavies
- Elin Styles
- julie chillcott
- Malcolm Styles
- Sarah Fox
- Paul styles
- Christine Mitchell
- James Styles
- Jennie Gatheral
- Yolanda Slawinska
- Jane Howland
- Nick James
- Derek Prowse
- Emma Holt
- Nigel Gibbs
- Mary Gowers
- Sarah Botfield
- Kate Piggott
- Charles Kenyon
- Patricia Flaherty
- Selena Crossley
- sheena powell
