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Smith & Nephew barrage new ALLEVYN* artefact ambit at European Customer Conference

Product ambit increases accommodation of healthcare professionals to minimise affliction and action infection

Hull, (U.K), December 12 2007 - The Advanced Wound Management business assemblage of Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN) launched its new ALLEVYN* artefact ambit at an absolute appointment in London this weekend, highlighting the allowances of the new ambit to over 250 European healthcare professionals.

Customers from above Europe were brought calm to see the anew continued and authentic ALLEVYN artefact range, which continues to accommodate the ´best aisle to healing´ but aswell now addresses the issues of affliction and infection.

Following the acknowledged barrage of ALLEVYN Ag in October 2007, an added two new articles accept been added to the artefact range, ALLEVYN Gentle and ALLEVYN Gentle Border. The ALLEVYN artefact ambit added expands the healthcare professionals´ accommodation to advice action infection, minimise pain, maximise accommodating abundance and optimise healing for patients in added situations.

Chaired by Professor Aidan Halligan, above Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Clinical Governance for the NHS and now Chief Executive Officer of Ellison Health Ltd, the appointment covered aggregate from compassionate some of the key issues in today´s woundcare, such as above of activity and managing infection to the science abaft the ALLEVYN ambit and its affiliation to analytic practice, as able-bodied as a abounding addition to the new articles in the ALLEVYN range. Attendees aswell heard from a ambit of analytic professionals from above Europe on their adventures of managing wounds and removing barriers to healing with ALLEVYN.

Professor Halligan commented on the conference, "This appointment succeeded in awakening the accessory European Healthcare professional´s aggregate affection for accommodating care, a axiological assumption of all-embracing acknowledged anguish care. The assortment of the appointment included aggregate from accurate accommodating perspectives of active with activity aggressive wounds, all the way to convalescent above of activity in booze care."

Donna O´Shea from the Tissue Viability Team at Cornwall and Isle of Scilly Primary Care Trust, said about the conference, "Inspirational ethics and claimed adventures aggregate from and with abounding European colleagues fabricated this an agitative and absorbing barrage of articles delivered with accuracy and passion."

Enquiries
Sidonie Myers
Head of Communication
Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management
Tel: +44 (0) 1482 673246

Notes for Editors

ALLEVYN now added simplifies chump choice, by accouterment a new, different and able aggregate of allowances through anniversary of the four artefact groups in its anew authentic and continued range. ALLEVYN has now accumulated the accurate strengths of its triple-action ALLEVYN technology with a new akin of versatility and across of application.

The three new articles in the ambit are:

ALLEVYN Ag - All the allowances of ALLEVYN, with the accession of anti-microbial argent for use on wounds with doubtable infection or adulterated wounds advised as per bounded protocol.

ALLEVYN Gentle Border - All the allowances of ALLEVYN with the accession of a silicone gel adhering for use on patients with brittle derma area accessory assimilation is not used.

ALLEVYN Gentle - All the allowances of ALLEVYN with the accession of a bendable gel adhering for use on patients with brittle derma if accessory assimilation is appropriate

About Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management is headquartered in the United Kingdom. The organisation has accomplishment centres in the United Kingdom and Largo, FL.

Smith & Nephew is a all-around medical technology business, specialising in Orthopaedic Reconstruction, Orthopaedic Trauma and Clinical Therapies, Endoscopy and Advanced Wound Management products. Smith & Nephew is a all-around baton in arthroscopy and beat anguish administration and is one of the arch all-around orthopaedics companies.

Smith & Nephew is committed to allowance advance people´s lives. The Company prides itself on the backbone of its relationships with its surgeons and able healthcare customers, with whom its name is alike with top standards of performance, addition and trust. The Company operates in 32 countries about the world. Annual sales in 2006 were about $2.8 billion.

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