🧼 Continence Care Clinic – Specialist Support for Urinary & Bowel Continence Needs

🧼 Compassionate, Practical Support for Everyday Continence Care

Urinary and bowel continence challenges can affect comfort, confidence and daily life. Whether you use a catheter, nephrostomy, suprapubic catheter, intermittent catheterisation, anal inserts, or require continent catheterisation through a stoma or ipouch, specialist guidance can help you feel safer, more comfortable and more in control.

Our Continence Care Clinic provides expert assessment, appliance support, troubleshooting and personalised advice for anyone managing urinary or bowel continence needs, including those with digestive or urological conditions, stomas, continent urinary and bowel diversions, ipouches, fistulae, neurological conditions, or cancer treatments.

🧼 Who We Support

✔️ Urinary Continence Needs

Including:

  • Intermittent self‑catheterisation

  • Long‑term indwelling catheters

  • Suprapubic catheters

  • Nephrostomy tubes

  • Urostomy‑related continence concerns

  • Continent urinary stomas requiring catheterisation (e.g., Mitrofanoff)

  • Continence changes during cancer treatment

  • Patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy or pelvic surgery

✔️ Bowel Continence Needs

Including:

  • Anal inserts

  • Bowel leakage

  • Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS)

  • Pouch‑related urgency

  • Fistula‑related leakage

  • Continence changes after pelvic surgery

  • Patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy or pelvic surgery

🧼 How We Support Stoma & iPouch Catheterisation

🔴Urinary & Enteric Stomas

We help with:

  • Safe catheter insertion techniques for continent stomas (e.g., Mitrofanoff, K-pouch)

  • Safe catheter insertion techniques for stomas (e.g., ileostomy, jejunostomy, colostomy)

  • Urostomy stents management

  • Troubleshooting difficulty passing the catheter

  • Managing mucus production

  • Preventing blockages

  • Skin care around the stoma

  • Appliance support if leakage occurs

🔴iPouch Catheterisation

We support:

  • Catheter insertion for pouch emptying

  • Preventing catheter‑related trauma

  • Recognising signs of infection

  • Troubleshooting catheter resistance or blockage

🧼 What We Help With

🔴Urinary Continence

  • Catheter care and troubleshooting

  • Preventing catheter blockages

  • Managing bypassing or leakage

  • Skin care around catheter sites

  • Nephrostomy and suprapubic catheter support

  • Infection‑prevention strategies

  • Comfort and positioning advice

  • Urostomy stents removal, flushing, and general care

🔴Bowel Continence

  • Managing bowel leakage

  • Using anal inserts safely

  • Skin protection around the anus or fistula site

  • Strategies for urgency or frequency

  • Support for pouch‑related continence issues

  • Dietary and hydration guidance

  • Appliance selection for bowel‑related drainage

🧼 Types of Devices We Support

🔴Urinary Devices

  • Intermittent catheters

  • Indwelling urethral catheters

  • Suprapubic catheters

  • Nephrostomy tubes

  • Urostomy appliances

  • Catheters for continent bowel and urinary stomas

  • Catheters for ipouch emptying

  • Leg bags and night bags

  • Catheter valves

  • Urostomy stents

🔴Bowel Devices

  • Anal inserts

  • Stoma and ipouch catheters

  • Trans-Anal Irrigation devices

  • Bowel continence plugs

  • Drainage systems for fistulae

  • Skin protection products

  • Absorbent pads and support garments

🧼 What We Offer

1️⃣ Specialist Continence Assessment

2️⃣ Personalised Care Plans

3️⃣ Troubleshooting & Problem‑Solving

4️⃣ Education & Confidence Building

5️⃣ Monitoring & Follow‑Up

🧼 Why Choose Our Continence Care Clinic?

  • Specialist nurses experienced in urinary and bowel continence

  • Expertise in stoma and ipouch catheterisation

  • Integrated multidisciplinary care

  • Tailored, practical advice, safe, evidence‑based care

  • No commercial promotion or product advertising

  • Specialist nurses experienced in complex digestive and urological conditions

  • Clear referral pathways when medical or surgical input is required

  • Enhanced comfort, confidence, and quality of life

  • Compassionate, patient‑centred care