King's College London

The aim of this project is to define assessment criteria for chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) in people with dark skin tones. It will inform future interventions and modifications to practice for the assessment of CVI in people with dark skin tones in a nurse led intervention to improve patient assessment.

To achieve this there will be three parts to this study, we will:

• Explore patient journeys and patient experiences of people with dark skin tones diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. We will listen to their patient journey to identify what areas worked well and what could be developed. This will help us plan how care could be improved for similar people.
• Record how skin changes look and feel in people with dark skin tones and known venous disease, and photograph this. We will consider what techniques used in practice are useful to see these skin changes.
• And speak to clinical experts to define the clinical presentation of venous disease in people with dark skin tones.