Pioneer Research

Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres operate across Ambulatory, Acute and Telehealth with over 120 staff and are committed to adding new knowledge to the fields of wound and lymphoedema prevention and management.

We offer a full range of research activities from healthy volunteer studies to bench and laboratory investigations, we act as a site for multi centred studies and take a leadership role for single and multi-site clinical studies. We have considerable expertise in developing study protocols that are innovative, efficient, and achievable in terms of outcome measures, patient numbers and study timetable and milestones.

We see you.
We understand you.
We want to help do better.

Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphoedema Centres are an independent provider of clinical services to the National Health Service in England and to self-funding patients from across the UK and are regulated by the CQC.

We operate from centres in Sussex, Norfolk, Birmingham and Inverness and in 2025 we will commence providing clinical services in Panama, and plan to finalise research partnerships with colleagues across South-East Asia.

We collaborate with commercial partners to ensure that the final protocol reflects the aims and expectations of the study sponsor.

With over 80k patient contacts per year, we are ideally placed to rapidly recruit patients to clinical studies.

During 2024 we grew our research capability rapidly and 2025 will be another year of growth. In recent years our centres have studied fish skin, lasers, chemical debridement, compression methods, telehealth as well as reporting on our healing rates in wounds, optimisation in lymphoedema and studying the psychosocial impact of delayed treatment in patients with lymphoedema.

We have expertise and experience in data management and analysis along with the creation of final reports and preparation of manuscripts and presentations.

Pioneer are uniquely placed to partner with those in the field of wounds and lymphoedema with our patient contacts, breadth of services and decades of experience in the team. We are also uniquely placed to support organisations from the first steps in new device development through to clinical and laboratory studies for regulatory approval and post marketing studies.

Our Research

Pioneer commits to sharing our clinical and scientific research findings with the wider wound and lymphoedema community to help share new knowledge and best practice. We work with our research partners to best understand how to bring completed projects to their customers and relevant clinical communities.

Venous and lymphovenous lower limb wound outcomes in specialist UK wound and lymphoedema clinics

Wound discharge outcomes of a specialist wound telehealth service in 38 nursing homes over a three-year period