Home UrgoStart Plus Range UrgoKTwo UrgoClean Ag UrgoTul Silver UrgoTul Family More Self-care information leaflets with simple tips on how to stay safe and look after your wound How to look after your wound How to look after your Leg Ulcer How to look after your Diabetic Foot Ulcer ©2020 by Urgo Medical UK. Urgo Limited - Sullington Road - Shepshed - Loughborough LE12 9JG - Tel. : 0330 128 0898 - Fax : 01509 650 898 Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

Home UrgoStart Plus Range UrgoKTwo UrgoClean Ag UrgoTul Silver UrgoTul Family More WHY DID NICE REVIEW URGOSTART TREATMENT RANGE? LEG ULCERS AND DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS TAKE OVER 200 DAYS TO HEAL (1) It's time to relieve the burden of wounds on patients, clinicians, and the healthcare economy. 200 days with a wound represents a huge burden. 1. Poor quality of life for patients (2,3) 97% feel restricted in their functioning 81% experience pain 44% feel low or depressed 2. Increasing workload for clinicians (4) "It's emotionally draining if I'm unable to heal these patients who deserve a better quality of life." 3. Increasing financial burden (5) Annual cost of leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers in the UK (5) The average CCG spend will increase by £14M over 5 years if they fail to reduce healing time (4) NICE REVIEWED URGOSTART SINCE IT HAS DEMONSTRATED SIGNIFICANT EFFICACY IN REDUCING HEALING TIME THROUGH THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF EVIDENCE. Implement NICE guidance for UrgoStart locally and reduce healing time for your patients References (1) French Health Insurance Report to the Ministry of Health for 2014. July 2013. (2) Herber OR, Schnepp W, Rieger MA. A systematic review on the impact of leg ulceration on patients’ quality of life. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2007;5:44. (3) Hareendran A, Bradbury A, Budd J, et al. Measuring the impact of venous leg ulcers on quality of life. J Wound Care. 2005;14(2):53-7. (4) Guest JF. The health economic burden that acute and chronic wounds impose on an average clinical commissioning group/health board in the UK. J Wound Care 2017; 26:6. (5) Guest JF, et al. Health economic burden that different wound types impose on the UK’s National Health Service. 2016 Medicalhelplines.com Inc and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ©2020 by Urgo Medical UK. Urgo Limited - Sullington Road - Shepshed - Loughborough LE12 9JG - Tel. : 0330 128 0898 - Fax : 01509 650 898 Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement