Charity Partnership : RAFT & The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation

RAFT is delighted to have formed a Charity Partnership with the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation.

The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation was set up in 1995 by Ellie Lindsay, a district nurse in Suffolk, who knew that social factors and isolation could significantly affect leg ulcer patients’ response to treatment. Ellie introduced the concept of community-based leg ulcer care, which has grown into a network of evidence-based leg ulcer clinics, known as Leg Clubs.

Leg Clubs provide community-based treatment, health promotion, education and ongoing care for people of all ages who are experiencing leg-related problems.

RAFT and the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation share the same aim - to provide a better quality of life for patients with leg ulcers. RAFT’s surgeons and scientists are hoping to take its Smart Matrix artificial skin scaffold to patient trial, for a ‘clean’ wound, by the end of 2011. The team is also working to adapt the current model in order that it may be used to treat chronic wounds, such as leg ulcers. Speed is of the essence as any open wound is highly susceptible to infection, which creates further problems.

Amanda Bailey