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I have been undetaking the Graduate Diploma in Lymphoedema Management for the past 3 years. I live in Lincolnshire and found travelling up to Glasgow easier than going to Leeds as it is the closest course available. There are not many schools of nursing to provide this sort of specialsit training and I have been proud and honoured to be accepted for the training. My colleague has recently completed her Leduc training but felt it only just scratched the surface and she needs to have more in depth training, so has enrolled with Glasgow University to complete the Graduate Diploma in Lymphoedema Management while self funding. This would be a travisty to the world of lymphoedema if the school of nursing closed as lymphoedema is such an unrecognised condition which affect thousands of people , especially since Moffatt et al (2003) suggests that chronic oedema is a common problem in the community with over 100,000 patients suffering in the UK alone, many of whom will not be attending a specialist clinic. These courses enable practitioners like myself to gain the knowledge and understanding to help recognise these patients and enable treatments to be given to otherwise an under recognised condition.