Village of Hope update
Published in News · Tuesday 26 Jan 2021
Jack has recently received the update below from a Vilage of Hope. The photos feature our contact Ali Clarke Morris, Pangbourne podiatrist, who of course cannot make her annual trip to the unit this year. The word Rotary doesn't appear in the letter but we know that the Club has had full recognition not least with the dozens of wheelchairs carrying our badge around the village. Even though Ali cannot visit I hope we will still encourage then in some modest way.
We would like to thank you for being a supporter of the Village of HOPE Bandaging Unit in New Delhi. This programme means a lot to us and so we appreciate your sacrifice to support it and those suffering from leprosy.
We are optimistic about the future of the Bandaging Unit thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, and we would like to provide you with an update on recent developments. From October of last year, the bandaging team started to use Cliniko, a healthcare software tool, to record progress in patients' wounds over time. We have never had the funds to monitor and evaluate the patients before, but thanks to your generosity we are able to make improvements. At the date of this email the team had registered 266 patients on the database and made 1519 appointments.
In the image below, you can see an example of the data that we are collecting on Cliniko.
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At each appointment, podiatrists are able to record the number of wounds presented by each patient, medical history, changes in the wound, and the method used to dress their wounds. The 'Progress' record is particularly helpful for recording and monitoring the healing process. The team would like to record SINBAD scores (used by the NHS) once practitioners receive further training. This would allow for more detailed monitoring of changes in wounds.
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The bandaging team can also use Cliniko to create lists of patients with other health conditions, such as diabetes, using reference number filters. They can also produce reports of practitioner performance in order to track how many patients each practitioner has seen.
Over the next three months, the bandaging team hope to begin logging photographs of patients' wounds onto Cliniko. This will provide photographic evidence of the effect of wound treatment. This will also enable the practitioners in the UK to view the images online and then liaise with patients about their wound healing progress.
We would be happy to answer any questions you may have about the work of the Village of Hope.
Kind regards,
HOPE worldwide UK