Implementing the Essence of Care benchmark for pressure ulcers.

Since The Essence of Care (Department of Health, 2001) was launched there have been many publications about the document and the process of benchmarking. This paper will focus specifically on the implementation of the benchmark for pressure ulcers.

Surgical wound benchmark tool and best practice guidelines.

Surgical wounds that heal by primary intention are expected to heal without complication (Watret and White, 2001). Patients are frequently subjected to a variety of treatment regimens, often based on individual practitioners' preferences. This article discusses how one acute hospital trust developed a multidisciplinary approach to devise best practice guidelines.