Pioneering Trusted Medical Solutions to Improve the Lives We Touch

At Convatec, we believe in better healthcare, not just for some but for all.

We want patients with hard-to-heal wounds to have better quality of life and experience positive outcomes, and we want to make life easier for their care providers. We know that with the right education about Wound Hygiene, and the right treatment choices at each stage of the journey, wounds can be healed, and even prevented. That is why we're always deveolping new technologies that help minimize the risk of complications and reduce the time it takes to heal.

It's why we're always working with clinicians and key opinion leaders to roll-out much needed educational programmes, and it's why we're always listening to what patients have to say so we can provide services and support that make a real difference in peoples lives.

That is our commitment to you, that we'll keep doing everything we can to empower health care professionals and support patients. We will make peple care as much as we do and we will make change happen, because we know that by improving the standard of care and supporting better self care, we will improve the lives of those we touch, for today, for tomorrow and forever.

Join the Wound Hygiene movement:

We are on a mission to change the standard of care for hard-to-heal wounds

Hydrofiber® Technology

AQUACEL® Family

DuoDERM® Dressings

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