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ActivHeal® Newsletter – May 2019

JUST LAUNCHED – The 6th Edition of our 156 page Wound Care Education Pocket Guide is here and is exclusively available to ActivHeal® customers. It’s packed with useful information and is small enough to fit in your pocket. Come and see us at the Primary Care Conference to discover more!

Advanced Medical Solutions Acquires Sealantis

We are particularly excited to welcome Sealantis’ innovation team of R&D experts to AMS and look forward to working alongside them to develop the technology in a wide range of potential applications and indications. Chris Meredith, CEO of Advanced Medical...

ActivHeal® Achieves Outstanding Service Level Results for Q1

This is a great result, ensuring that our products are available when our customers ask for them, ensuring a positive patient experience. Teresa Starkey, Customer Service Team Leader At ActivHeal®, we are committed to ensuring our customers receive the highest service...

Advanced Medical Solutions Achieves MDSAP Certification

The achievement of MDSAP is a great success for both sites, and demonstrates what we can achieve when we work together as a team. Sarah Tomkins - Quality Assurance ManagerIn 2018, Advanced Medical Solutions opted to take part in the MDSAP (Medical Device Single Audit...

ActivHeal® PHMB Foam in the Management of a Post Operative Surgical Wound – A Clinical Article

Post operative surgical wound infection is, without doubt, the most troubling of all wound complications. Foot ulcer infections are common in patients with diabetes. Although infection is not considered to be a direct cause, it does play a major role in wound healing...

ACTIVHEAL® AQUAFIBER AG IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A SURGICAL INCISION – A CLINICAL ARTICLE

This article reports on the use of an ActivHeal Aquafiber Ag dressing in the management of a surgical incision following the drainage of an abscess. CLINICAL RESOURCE: THE MANAGEMENT OF A SURGICAL INCISION AND DRAINAGE OF ABSCESS USING ACTIVHEAL® AQUAFIBER AG Joanne...

AMS Smashes 2018 Fundraising Target for St Luke’s Hospice!

The AMS team were involved in the 25 mile Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Challenge – not one for the faint hearted! 2018 was a fantastic year for our fundraising efforts for St Luke's Hospice. The team at Advanced Medical Solutions smashed its original 2018 year-end target...

The ActivHeal team recently attended Wounds UK 2018 to promote the launch of their new innovative silver spray, Silgen Ag

ActivHeal launch a new innovative silver spray called Silgen Ag The ActivHeal team recently attended Wounds UK 2018 to promote the launch of their new innovative silver spray called Silgen Ag. Following the signing of an exclusive agreement with Genadyne, ActivHeal...

Stop the pressure! A simplified Guide to Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Pressure Ulcer Management.

ActivHeal® latest Simplified guides offer readers guidance on Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Pressure Ulcer Management.

ActivHeal® Newsletter – October 2018

THE ACTIVHEAL® ACADEMY HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR UNIVERSITY LEVEL FIVE MODULAR ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAMME. These online education modules are available to support ActivHeal® customers. Please click the link below. TO GET YOU STARTED HERE IS A SAMPLE QUESTION FROM...

Nurse in Practice London

The ActivHeal® team will be promoting the newly launched ActivHeal® Academy The ActivHeal team will be at Nurse in Practice London on Tuesday 25th September 2018, at Olympia London. This event is specifically designed for primary care nurses, and will...

Lemon on tour

The lemon on tour - coming to a place near you soon. In our continuing support for local charity St Luke’s Hospice our attention has been focused on fruit – nothing to do with your 5 a day or skin conditions but a simple balancing act. To put it simple, the lemon on...

The A – team take on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge

Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Challenge is a total of 25 miles – not one for the faint hearted! On the 1st September, a team from AMS will be taking part in the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge. This challenge involves tackling the 3 peaks of the Yorkshire Dales (Pen-y-Ghent...

AMS STAFF take part in Midnight Walk which helps raise more than £100,000 for St Luke’s Hospice

Advanced Medical Solutions recently sponsored St Lukes Midnight walk and helped to raise over £100,000 for the charity! Staff at AMS Winsford raised a massive £5,973.25, and money is still coming in!

Midnight Walk – practice run

AMS are well on their way to the £5000 target In preparation for the St Luke’s Midnight Walk taking place on the 30th June, staff at our Winsford site had a practice run wearing their Midnight Walk T-shirts to work. The team at AMS have been working tirelessly to...

The ActivHeal® team attend Wound Care Today

ActivHeal attend Wound Care Today 2018 launch event The ActivHeal® Team were out and about this week at the Wound Care Today 2018 launch event at the MK Dons football ground, Milton Keynes. This was a new two-day conference that offered a programme on clinical and...

The ActivHeal team attend the Leg Ulcers: Right Care, Right Time event at the Liverpool Titanic Hotel.

Test your knowledge today on the ActivHeal Academy education page. The ActivHeal team are out and about at the Leg Ulcers: Right Care, Right Time event at the Liverpool Titanic Hotel. Wounds UK will provide a variety of...

ActivHeal® Aquafiber Extra – unique engineering technology

ActivHeal® Aquafiber Extra is our new high performance dressing, suitable for moderate to heavily exuding wounds.

Passion for Learning

Advanced Medical Solutions is supporting a new project in Winsford to enable ‘Passion for Learning’ to place trained volunteers from the community in to local schools.

ActivHeal Supporting Education with the Tissue Viability Society

ActivHeal® are pleased to announce they are supporting the Tissue Viability Society’s Educational Grant system, read more…

ActivHeal ACTIVELY promote their antimicrobial range at Wounds UK Infection Day

Simplified Guides help with dressing selection for infected wounds The ActivHeal® team are looking forward to attending the Wounds UK Infection Day, 19th April at York Race Course. The conference program covers a full range of issues surrounding the topic of infection...

Why do skin tears happen and what can we do to prevent them?

A skin tear is simply a traumatic wound resulting from partial or full separation of the outer layers of the skin…

Moisture lesion v pressure ulcer – how to differentiate

A moisture lesion is defined as being caused by urine and/or faeces and perspiration which is in continuous contact with intact skin of the perineum, buttocks, groins, inner thighs, natal cleft, skin folds and where skin is in contact with skin…