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Mark Collier
Chair & Treasurer
Mark qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1982, practicing initially in the care of Trauma and Orthopaedics patients. He quickly combined his clinical experiences with his interest in Tissue Viability and as a result was a founding member of the Wound Care Society (UK) in 1988.
He has also been a council member of the Tissue Viability Society (TVS), the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and is currently a Council member of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA) and Chair of the Leg Ulcer Forum (England & Wales). Throughout his career he has won many awards such as The Mary Powell Orthopaedic Nursing Award; a Smith and Nephew Foundation Doctoral Nursing Research Scholarship and most recently the British Journal of Nursing ‘Pressure Care Nurse of the Year’.
A clinician first and foremost, he is currently working as a Nurse Consultant/Associate Lecturer – Tissue Viability with affiliations to Lincolnshire Health Care Services and the Universities of Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Sunderland, with his stated objective that of ‘promoting evidence-based best practice’. He continues to review and advise on specialist patient care and is an editorial advisor for the Journal of Wound care amongst other publications. He has 250+ publications (Research/Educational/Clinical) to his name and has been involved in the writing of various National and International best practice documents; NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and EWMA Guidelines, and he remains an active NICE GDG (Guideline Development Group) member – often also being asked to review and advise on current NICE Med Tech applications. In the Summer of 2023, Mark was appointed as TV Nurse Advisor and Audit Nurse (Barchester Nursing Home Group) which involves audit, clinical and education activities around the UK.ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- B.A (Hons)
- RGN
- ONC
- RCNT
- RNT
- V300