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Burns Outreach Service
Our aim is to provide the highest quality of care for all children and adults referred with burns, scalds and other skin loss conditions.
The Welsh Centre for Burns provides a burns service to South and Mid Wales. It is the lead adult burn service for the South West UK Burns Network and as such will also accept referral of complex adult burns from South Wales as well as from the South West of England.
The service offers advice and conservative management (treatments that do not involve surgery) to treat scars.
Managing scars can involve the use of silicone and/or pressure garments to help prevent or reduce hypertrophic scarring. Scarring can take around two years to mature so treatment can continue during this time. Scars can not be removed but these treatments can help to reduce itch, pain and sensitivity and leave scars flat, soft and supple.
Contact details
Burns Outreach Service, Welsh Centre for Burns, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, SA6 6NL.
Telephone: 01792 -703628/703980. Mon. – Fri. 8:30am - 4:30pm excluding bank holidays. Answer machine available.
If your require an interpreter please contact Language Line tel:0800 917 6564 or visit www.languageline.co.uk
Who can be referred to the Burns Outreach Service?
Any adult or child that has been seen at the Burns Centre at Morriston Hospital
Who are we
The team consists of:
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Janine Evans Advanced Practioner Occupational Therapist |
Sue Price Advanced Practioner Occupational Therapist |  Claire Poole Specialist Occupational Therapist |  Liz Brown Clinical Nurse Specialist |
The team offers the following services:
- Individualised rehabilitation programmes and /or advice to local therapists
- Provide a link and support between the hospital, community services, employers, schools and nurseries and employers
- Joint visits, if required, with community professionals involved in the persons care
- Regular follow – up appointments as required at the Burns Centre or satelitte clinics in Laugharne, Brecon, Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen and the University Hospital of Wales (The Heath), Cardiff. Joint appointments with the Burn Consultant will be arranged as required
- Specialist burn wound care and advice
- Specialist burn scar assessment and management
- Referral to specialist services if required
- Specialist skin camouflage advice
Our Satisfaction Survey
The burns outreach annual patients and patient/carer Satisfaction questionnaire was conducted in April 2012. The general outcome from the complied questionnaires was very positive with patients commenting on the high standard of care they receive from the Burns Outreach team.
Further Support Groups
The Welsh Dragons Burns Club is run by a committed group of volunteers. One of the most difficult things about being a burn survivor or having a permanent scar is feeling that you look different to everyone else. One of our key aims is to provide ongoing support to those children and their families by building confidence and self-esteem, and helping to develop networks of friends who share similar experiences.
Dan's Fund for Burns, the registered burns charity was established by Polly Miller after her husband Dan, best friend and seven other friends were killed in the 2002 Bali bombings. Polly was badly burnt herself and learnt first hand just how painful and devastating, both physically and emotionally, it is to be burnt.
Changing Faces is a charity for people and families whose lives are affected by conditions, marks or scars that alter their appearance.
