Jacqui Fletcher, OBE

Independent Nurse Consultant

Jacqui Fletcher OBE is currently Senior Nurse Advisor – Stop the Pressure Programme / Clinical Lead Pressure Ulcers National Wound Care Strategy, an Independent Wound Care Consultant, and Editor of Wounds UK journal.
Prior to this Jacqui was the Clinical Strategy Director at the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre and had an honorary clinical contract at Cardiff and Vale UHB. Jacqui was an Honorary Fellow of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 2011 – 2014.

She has worked for Midlands and East Strategic Health Authority as Harm Free Care Lead, focussing on the ambition to eliminate all avoidable category 2,3 and 4 pressure ulcers. She has also worked as a Principal Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire Leading an MSc and BSC in Tissue Viability and an MSc in Evidence Based Practice. She remains an honorary tutor at Cardiff University.

She is a Patron of the Lindsey Leg Club, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for International Wound Journal, the Journal of Wound Care and Wounds UK journal. She served as an Executive of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel from its inception in 1996 until 2010 and was instrumental in developing the 2009 guidelines serving as a lead for a working group.
She has published widely and speaks at both national and international conferences.

Ellie Lindsay, OBE, FQNI

Lindsay Leg Club Lifetime President

In 1995 Ellie introduced the concept of a psychosocial lower limb clinic ‘Leg Club’, to address the holistic needs of her patients. Her work has since been widely disseminated through publications and international conference presentations. She left the National Health Service to become an independent Specialist Practitioner and Clinical Consultant in December 2002. In January 2003, she was appointed Associate Lecturer (CRICP, Thames Valley University, London) and, in December 2003, Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology. She subsequently established The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation, a registered charity, in September 2005 and in recognition of her work was made Life President in 2009.

She has won a myriad of awards throughout her career, most recently The British Journal of Nursing Lifetime Achievement, Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to nursing and conferred a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (FQNI). Ellie received international recognition from The Arias Medical Foundation and The Scientific Institute of Higher Education, Mexico by being presented with an Award for Excellence and she was honoured by the International Society of Paediatric Woundcare (ISPeW) receiving an Education Award for Excellence in Wound care and become the first ISPeW honorary board member. In 2022 Ellie received the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) Lifetime Achievement Award for her “exceptional and consistent dedication to the global challenge of improving outcomes for those with lower limb conditions. She is a patient advocate through education, creation of networks, giving persons with leg wounds a voice and an integral part of the activities of the WUWHS”.