Mark Collier BA (Hons), RGN, ONC, RCNT, RNT

Mark qualified as a Registered General Nurse in Shropshire in 1982, going on to specialise in Orthopaedic Nursing at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Since then he has been actively involved in a variety of settings, caring for patients with the full range of orthopaedic conditions.

Subsequently Mark moved into teaching and spent four years as a specialist Orthopaedic Tutor at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, before teaching Project 2000 Nursing Students at the North London College of Health Studies. In 1992 he was appointed as the first Nurse Consultant – Tissue Viability in the United Kingdom [at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge].

Whilst a Nurse Consultant/Senior Lecturer (1997 to 2002) – Tissue Viability at the Centre for Research and the Implementation of Clinical Practice (CRICP) he remained actively involved in clinical, educational and research activities every working day (and night!). He also led the development of an interactive CD ROM distance-learning package about the management of patients with leg ulceration.

In his current post he is strategically responsible for the development of all Tissue Viability services within United Lincolnshire Hospitals as well as clinically and educationally responsible and the lead for relevant research projects in four hospitals within south Lincolnshire. In 2003, he became the first nurse in Lincolnshire to successfully complete the Independent Nurse Prescribing Course. In his own time Mark’s PhD studies are investigating ‘the development of a new risk assessment tool that can assist with the identification of patients at risk of developing heel pressure ulcers’ in Orthopaedic inpatient settings - therefore combining both of his major professional interests.