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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

            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 sessions that address critical and...

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

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

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...

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

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…

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

A hard-to-heal wound is defined as one that fails to heal with standard therapy in an orderly and timely manner. There are several reasons why wounds fail to heal and these can be classified as intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external).

ActivHeal® will be exhibiting its UK range of generic wound care dressings at the SEC in Glasgow for Nursing in Practice Scotland.

Care Fair Dare Our company values are the DNA of our business, they demonstrate how our employees are prepared to go the extra mile and are committed to supporting the company in achieving its objectives. At this year’s National Sales Meeting Awards, all team members...

Advanced Medical Solutions are pleased to announce that they will be the main sponsor of this year’s St. Luke’s Hospice Midnight Walk.

Valentine’s Day cake sale for St. Luke’s Hospice. Who needs love when you can have cake!...this was the idea that sparked the Valentine’s Day cake sale at AMS Winsford to raise funds for St. Luke’s Hospice. And what a sale it was! We raised a fantastic amount of...

As part of our educational support, our Simplified Guides have been well received by clinicians. The Simplified Guides cover a range of topics and are aimed at providing clinicians with short, succinct pieces of information that helps to support and guide decision...

This document can be used to make the case for implementing effective prevention and management measures and may be supported by data from your own care setting. As well as economic impact, it is important to know the impact of interventions on a patient's quality of...

This article reports on how the ActivHeal Aquafiber Ag dressing performs on a diverse range of patients with complex infected and non-infected wounds. The management of exudates is an essential requirement in wound care. It is vital that an optimal moist wound...

AMS supports the Whitechapel Homeless Centre   The Christmas shoe box appeal for the homeless started in 2015, and has continued with great success year on year. Since then staff at the Winsford site have been able to collect over 100 boxes every year, for both...

ActivHeal® Aquafiber Ag was found to be 7.6% more absorbent and 36X stronger than Aquacel® Ag EXTRA and Aquacel® Ag respectively Antimicrobial dressings such as silver dressings may be used as a barrier to microorganisms in wounds at high risk of infection or...

News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. BBC Radio 4 aired an interview today discussing the current wound care crisis, likened to the obesity epidemic and compared to the complexities of treating diabetes, the debate talked...