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Here at JCN HQ, we are thrilled to be celebrating the journal’s 50th anniversary. Over this half century, the journal has grown, been redesigned, constantly moved to keep up to date with the ever changing face of community nursing, and continued to provide education to help you in your dayto- day clinical practice and personal development. From starting out as a print journal 50 years ago, we now offer online resources, regional study days, Facebook live events and much more.

After two years of waiting because of the Covid-19 pandemic, TVNs from Wales, and
the UK, and the All Wales Lymphoedema Network are coming together again and
attending the Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend raising awareness in lower limb care.
This event is Wales’s biggest celebration of equality and diversity, over two days
hosting over 50,000 people in the Welsh capital to celebrate the LGBT+ community.
Following on from the massive success and pleasure of TVNs from Wales and the
UK attending Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend in 2019, this year’s #CelebrateYourLegs
is going to be BIGGER and BETTER than ever before. The All Wales Tissue Viability
Nurse Forum, along with the All Wales Lymphoedema Network, TVN2gether
and supported by JCN, Wound Care Today and industry partners, are joining the
parade and attending over the weekend of 27–28th August to champion not only
the important Pride message, but also to raise awareness of lower limb issues to the
LGBT+ community and their allies. Here, we ask Julie Evans, lead tissue viability
nurse at Powys Teaching Health Board, about Pride and the All Wales Tissue Viability
Nurse Forum’s involvement.

The ‘Managing Adult Malnutrition in the Community’ multidisciplinary panel is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the launch of the guidance. The guidance document was developed to assist non-nutrition experts in the identification, treatment and
prevention of disease-related malnutrition in the community.

Dermatological conditions are notoriously difficult to spell! Psoriasis with its silent ‘P’ and eczema without an ‘X’. But how about hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)? Hard to spell, hard to pronounce but, more importantly, really hard to be a patient with the condition.

Seven percent of the population in Britain — around 3.8 million people — currently rely on wound care services (Guest et al, 2020); a staggering, and surprising number. Wound care is often an unrecognised service, hidden away as part of the treatment for other conditions, such as diabetes. This lack of awareness led to a situation where variation in standards meant that patients were having mixed experiences of care across the country (Patients Association, 2021).

Melanoma awareness month, held annually in May, aims to promote sun safety and education on checking skin for signs and symptoms of melanoma. Earlier this year, Melanoma Focus surveyed over 1,000 people in the UK to assess public knowledge and attitudes on melanoma prevention and detection.