EDITORIAL

The Annual Meeting of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel is fast approaching. Budapest in September 2002 promises to yet an other excellent gathering of your association - with a blend of plenary sessions, debates, free papers and posters and several satellite meetings. Personally the past few months has been a busy time - trying to ensure the flow of material for the EPUAP Review while, as Recorder of the association planning the content and logistics of the Budapest meeting. While busy I hope that the combination of roles as Editor and Recorder will help to bring more of the annual meeting into the pages of the EPUAP Review. It would be excellent if we could begin to publish more of the content of the conference rather than restricting our reporting of the event to the reproduction of abstracts.

This issue of the EPUAP Review reproduces a presentation delivered by Dr Jeen Haalboom, our immediate past President, at the close of the meeting held in Le Mans last year. He urges both us, and our national governments to seek to control the quality of the interventions offered to help pressure ulcer prevention and management. One way in which such control could be exercised lies in the agreement of appropriate standards for the evaluation of devices such as pressure-redistributing support surfaces. One of the current EPUAP Working Groups has been tackling the conduct and reporting of interface pressure measurements. A draft of their report is published in this issue of the EPUAP Review and I am sure that the Group would welcome your comments both positive and negative on the content of this document.

Michael Clark
Editor