Continence Services
This part of the website has been designed specifically for GPs, Clinical Commissioning groups, care homes and other care professionals who need the service referral information or access to Trust policies and care leaflets.
How do Care Professionals refer into this service?
If you are a GP wishing to refer to this service please send your referral letter to:
Continence Service
Shropshire Rehabilitation Centre
Lancaster Road
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY1 3NL
If you need any advice about referrals, please call the team on 01743 444062.
Types of patients regularly seen
The service provides specialist assessment and investigations for patients with a range of bladder and bowel disorders and offers advice, treatments and therapies including;
- Uro flowmetry
- bladder ultra sound scanning
- bladder training programmes
- pelvic floor exercises
- teaching and supporting intermittent self-catheterisation
- Specialist assessment and support with Anal Irrigation
The service also supports health professionals, offering a range of training related to bladder and bowel pathways.
Patients not seen by this service
Patients with intractable incontinence who are managed by the community nursing service.
Frequently asked questions
- Do patients have to be incontinent to be referred into the service?
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No - We are specialist nurses in bladder and bowel assessment and dysfunction. We see adult patients of all ages with symptoms such as urinary urgency, frequency and Stress related incontinence. We also support and treat patients with simple and chronic constipation and liaise with Urologists and Gastrologists in the acute service.
Downloads & useful links
Please see the following list of continence related documents for use by care professionals only:
Patient information and leaflets
AUR/TWOC Pathways
- CONT 019 Pathway for Initial Catheterisation - Male with AUR in Community
- CONT 020 Male Acute Retention Pathway
- CONT 021 Male Acute Urinary Retention and TWOC Patient Leaflet
- CONT 025 Notification to GP of Male Acute Urinary Retention Pathway
- CONT 026 Notification to Community Nurse of Male Acute Urinary Retention Pathway
- CONT 028 Trial Without Catheter Pathway
- CONT 029 TWOC Algorithm
- CONT 030 Trial Without Catheter - Outcome Summary to GP
- CONT 031 Trial Without Catheter - Referred to Continence Advisory Servic.e
Catheter Pathways
Formularies
Assessment Documentation
- CONT 023 Bladder Diary
- CONT 024 IPSS
- CONT 027 Bowel Diary
- CONT 032 Bladder and Bowel Assessment
- CONT 034 Management Pathway Re-Assessment
- CONT 035 Children's Assessment
- CONT 036 Assessor Ordering Form
- CONT 039 Request Form for Off Formulary Products
- CONT 040 Symptom Profile
- CONT 050 Community hospitals Order form
- CONT 052 Management Pathway
- Continence Aid Booklet
- UTI assessment
Hydration Advice
Other documents
- Children and Young Adults - Product Selection Guide
- Children’s Continence Assessment Pathway
- Continence Service - Information Leaflet
- Continence Services HCAI Prevention Self-audit
- Patient referral pathway for lower urinary tract dysfunction (male and female)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for assessing the suitability of a catheter valve (adult patients)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for indwelling male catheterisation (adult patients) 2283-86014
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for removal of indwelling urethral catheter (adult patients) 2288-86025
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for securing indwelling catheters (adult patients) 2284-86018
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for suprapubic recatheterisation (adult patients)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for taking a catheter specimen of urine (CSU), (adult patients)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for trouble shooting of indwelling catheters (adult patients)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for administration of B Braun Uro-Tainer NaCl Saline 0.9% catheter maintenance solutions (adult patients) 2292-86034
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for administration of B Braun Uro-Tainer Solutio R Twin 6% Citric Acid catheter maintenance solutions (adult patients) 2293-86036
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for administration of B Braun Uro-Tainer Twin Suby G 3.23% Citric Acid catheter maintenance solutions (adult patients) 2285-86019
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for assessing and treating autonomic dysreflexia (adult patients) 2287-86023
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for changing a catheter urine drainage bag or catheter valve (adult patients) 2289-86027
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for emptying a catheter urine drainage bag or releasing a catheter valve (adult patients) 2290-86030
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for indwelling female catheterisation (adult patients) 2282-86013
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for suprapubic recatheterisation using a warm bladder infill, for patients with a spinal cord injury (adult patients)2291-86031
- Standing Operating Procedure for requesting continence products
Contact the Service Manager
Continence Team Leader
Jemma Brown
Tel: 01743 444062
Contact key clinician(s)
Continence Specialist Nurses
Jemma Brown
Nicola Head
Fiona Glover
Julie Thompson Hamilton
Jenny Henderson
Susan Southern
Tel: 01743 444062
Email the team