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Standards for Wound Prevention and Management (12/9/2020)
Wounds Australia invite review and comment to the draft document more…
Board Communiqué (4/08/2020)
View the latest news and information from the Wounds Australia Board more…
NPUAP Revised Pressure Injury Definitions (9/5/2020)
Wounds Australia Board congratulate the NPUAP for adopting the term “pressure injury” in their recent Media Release more…
Expressions of interest – National Portfolios (6/5/2020)
This is a call for expressions of interest from all Wounds Australia members to participate in the development of the national portfolios of Membership, Research, and Education, the Three Pillars of Wounds Australia. more…
Wounds Australia Structure (2/5/2020)
Chair of the Wounds Australia Board, Helen McGregor discusses the new Wounds Australia structure and the introduction of the new Portfolios more…
Wounds Australia Fellowship Awards and Clinician Appreciation Award 2016
(13/4/2020)
Forthcoming call for nominations for Wounds Australia Fellowship and Clinician Appreciation Awards 2016 AWMA Fellowship more…
Coloplast Biatain Literary Awards (21/3/2020)
The winners of the Biatain Literary Awards for 2015 have been announced and will each receive $1000 to be used to further their endeavours in wound management more…
Michael Woodward (AM) (1/2/2020)
We acknowledge and congratulate Professor Woodward on his most recent award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM). more…
Welcome to Wounds Australia (1/12/2020)
A welcome letter from the new Wounds Australia Board more…
Wounds Australia Limited – AGM 2015 (27/10/2020)
The Wounds Australia Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 27th November 2015 at the Function & Convention Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital more…
Research Grant (3/8/2020)
AWMA has demonstrated its commitment to wound research in Australia by establishing the Australian Wound Management Research Foundation. The aims of the Foundation are to foster further research on wounds within Australia and to provide modest funding to support such research through a Research Grant. more…
Wound Practice and Research – Request for Submissions (13/7/2020)
The Joint Editors of your journal, Wound Practice and Research, request all members to give high priority to the journal for your case reports, original research, reviews and clinical practice articles. more…
Expressions of Interest – Joint Editor, Wound Practice and Research (13/7/2020)
Expressions of interest are sought for the position of Joint Editor, Wound Practice and Research, the journal of the Australian Wound Management Association and the Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society more…
Wound Management Innovation CRC funding opportunity (8/7/2020)
The Wound Management Innovation CRC is seeking high impact, collaborative and industry focused projects that address our research priority areas. more…
Creating Surveys – AWMA Committee only (16/3/2020)
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Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline 2014 (international guideline)(28/8/2020)
The Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA), in conjunction with our collaborators in the Pan-Pacific region, Europe and North America, are delighted to announce completion of the 2014 international pressure injury guideline, Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline. more…
Latrobe University Podcast Interview (1/12/2020)
The 318th La Trobe University podcast interview is with Bill McGuiness, head of Nursing and Midwifery at La Trobe University. more…
Video Resource for health care workers: Patients describe the impact of a pressure injury (18/06/2020)
Western Health has produced a video that reminds all health care workers of the often devastating effect that developing a pressure injury has on the patient. more…
WUWHS 2016 Bid – Winner announced (6/09/2020)
The AWMA/New Zealand Wound Care Society joint bid for hosting the 2016 WUWHS meeting in Brisbane has not suceeded more …
Wound Management Education and Training Project (26/7/12)
A three year research project funded by the Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre has commenced.
AWMA encourages you to complete the survey more…
Wound Practice & Research The Asian – Pacific Online Edition (12/01/2020)
The Asian – Pacific Online Edition of the Wound Practice & Research Journal was launched in October 2011 and as avlaible for free to AWMA members more …
Pan Pacific Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Injury (26/10/2020)
The Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Injury has been developed by the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) and its subcommittee the Australian Pressure Injury Advisory Panel more…
Talking Health on 3AW (11/8/2020)
Bill McGuiness talks to Dr Sally Cockburn about Wound Awareness.
Click here to play audio
Also available on iTunes – Search for ‘Talking Health on 3AW’ – June 19, 2020
Launch Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention
and Management of Venous Leg Ulcers (23/10/2020)
This guideline was developed by the AWMA in conjunction with the NZWCS and launched
at the Pan Pacific Pressure Ulcer Forum & Venous Leg Ulcer Forum in Canberra in
October 2011 more…
Therapeutic Guidelines- Wounds (23/10/2020)
Many of you will be regular users of Therapeutic Guidelines (TGs) across a range of
clinical areas- antibiotics, anaelgesics, and most other clinical areas. I’m sure you’ve felt
that a TG on wound management that drew on the very practical, clinically relevant style of
these publications wound be a great addition more …
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Archived News Collection Searching for an old news or events item it may be contained within here…. more …
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