Wound Awareness Week 2025
Wound Awareness Week is pivotal in the NZWCS calendar.
The Society is honoured to have many experts among its members.
This year's topic is Preventing Surgical Site Infections & Promoting Healing with Early Compression and Advanced Therapies.
Monday 21 July 2025 Zoom 6pm to 8pm
Surgical Wound Care
Free online Zoom by NZWCS for Wound Awareness Week 2025
Surgical wounds and compression best practice, or are we too scared?? by Rebecca Aburn
Her professional interests include innovation in patient care, lymphedema, pyoderma gangrenosum, surgical site infection prevention, and the management of complex vascular patients. Rebecca has contributed to the field through presentations at national and international conferences and has published in reputable journals such as Wounds UK. In 2022, she co-established the first conservative sharp wound debridement course in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Post op surgical care from hospital to home by PROFESSOR KYLIE SANDY-HODGETTS
Experienced Senior Research Scientist and clinical trialist, with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry with a research specialty in surgical wound care.
The Zoom link will be included in your reminder and posted on the website here a dew days before.
To create a Zoom account for free go to: https://zoom.us/signup#/signup
Go to our Events - NZWCS Study days and seminars to register
2025 Webinar Videos
Click on the links below to access each section of the webinar which ran on the 21st July 2025.
2. Post Op Surgical Care From Hospital To Home - Professor Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts
Past Wound Awareness Week educational resources
