Better Care starts with better prevention
Pressure damage rarely results from a single cause. It is the visible consequence of multiple interacting factors that affect skin integrity, including pressure, mobility, positioning, nutrition and moisture.
Mercer Consultancy helps organisations understand and address these factors as part of a connected system, supporting safer, more consistent and more dignified care.
What We Do
We support organisations to improve pressure care and skin integrity through independent consultancy, education and quality improvement.
Our work helps strengthen:
- Pressure ulcer prevention
- Skin integrity and moisture management (including MASD/IAD)
- Workforce capability and confidence
- Clinical governance and quality improvement
We focus on practical, real-world solutions that work in everyday care environments.
The Challenge
Pressure ulcers and skin damage rarely happen in isolation. They are often the result of multiple interacting factors, including:
- Reduced mobility and poor positioning
- Moisture-associated skin damage (MASD), including incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD)
- Fragmented systems and siloed practice
- Inconsistent assessment and prevention
- Misalignment between products, policy and practice
Our role is to help organisations join up people, practice and systems to enable prevention.
Our approach
We use a dignity-centred 360° prevention model that brings together pressure care, skin integrity, mobility and moisture management.
We are independent. We don't promote products or predetermined solutions. Instead, we work with your teams to develop practical, evidence-informed improvements tailored to your organisation.
The Difference We Make
We help organisations move from reactive management to prevention-led practice.
This supports:
Improved skin integrity outcomes
Work starts with your people, your residents or patients, and your context
Stronger workforce confidence
Better governance and consistency
Safer, more dignified care
How We Support Organisations
We work across four areas:
Review: Pressure care & Skin integrity reviews
Consult: Clinical support for complex cases
Educate: Workforce development and training
Improve: Strategy, governance and quality improvement
Who we work with
We support organisations across health, social care and product development and innovation who are committed to improving pressure care and skin integrity:
Care providers
NHS and community services
MedTech and CareTech organisations
Commissioners and system partners
Why Organisations Choose Mercer Consultancy
Driven by Values, Dignity and Care
Improving pressure care and skin integrity requires more than introducing new products or delivering one-off training. It requires an understanding of how clinical practice, education, governance, technology and everyday care interact to influence outcomes.
Mercer Consultancy provides independent, evidence-informed consultancy that helps organisations strengthen pressure ulcer prevention, protect skin integrity and embed sustainable improvements in practice.
Our approach is different because we:
About the Founder - Beth Mercer
Beth Mercer founded Mercer Consultancy to help organisations improve pressure care and skin integrity through independent consultancy, education and quality improvement.
Over many years, Beth has worked in partnership with tissue viability teams, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, continence specialists, wound care teams and nursing professionals. This experience has provided a deep understanding of the clinical, operational and human factors that influence pressure ulcer prevention and skin integrity across health and social care.
Beth has developed recognised expertise in:
She is also the author of a white paper exploring manual versus automatic repositioning following pressure ulcer prevention trials in care homes. Beth has written extensively on pressure care, skin integrity, MASD, IAD and prevention-led practice.
Beth's passion is helping organisations bridge the gap between evidence and everyday practice, supporting services to improve clinical outcomes, build workforce confidence and deliver care that protects dignity as well as skin integrity.
