Sarah Wilson, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah Wilson
Head Nurse Community Division Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah has work within the NHS for 27 years with most of those years being within Community Nursing, where the obsession with lymphatics started. After training in Lymphoedema and working as part as Airedale NHS Trust Lymphoedema service, Sarah undertook the challenge of being the lead Lymphoedema specialist Nurse at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, providing Lymphoedema care for cancer and none cancer patients across Calderdale and Huddersfield including out of area patients, including covering Harrogate Lymphoedema service for 18 months, building a team of 6 specialist nurses and a active caseload of 2000. Sarah has a passion for lower leg healing, providing education and promoting self management, increasing lower leg healing rates from 21% within 12 weeks to consistently over 90% by encouraging early compression across community nursing services.