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Continence Service

The role of the Continence Service is to provide treatment and management options for patients with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

We have a small team of specialist nurses, staff nurses and health care assistants who aim to promote the management and treatment of bladder and bowel incontinence for clients who live within the Northern Trust area.

Services are provided at locally based clinics and, where appropriate, in the service user’s own home. The main aim is to promote continence and improve quality of life.

Individualised assessments ensure appropriate patient-centred treatment or management plans with onward referrals where appropriate. Training and education is also provided to community nurses, homecare staff, GPs, service users and carers.

Treatment and management

We provide treatment and management options including:

Pelvic floor muscle exercises
Bladder re-training
Lifestyle changes
Dietary advice
Bowel management
Continence device provision
Containment product provision
Home delivery service
Intermittent catheterisation
Electro-stimulation
Bladder-scanning

Resources

The Continence Challenge Podcast – Helping you regain control

We hope that this podcast will provide our patients with a greater understanding of their bladder and bowel dysfunction and education of what may be contributing to this, while providing supportive measures which could be implemented to improve bladder and bowel difficulties. The series will give an introduction to our service and discussion around the common types of bladder and bowel incontinence difficulties, such as overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence and functional incontinence. It will also look at how good bowel management can help with incontinence overall, and give patients the opportunity to hear from others who have lived experience of a bladder and/or bowel dysfunction.

As continence difficulties rarely fall into one specific type, we suggest you listen to all episodes to get the most from the information provided.

You can listen to the podcast below, or search for it on your preferred podcast platform.

The Continence Challenge Podcast – Helping You Regain Control

A podcast from the Continence Service in the Northern Trust, providing listeners with a greater understanding of bladder and bowel dysfunction and education of what may be contributing to the problem and supportive measures which could be implemented to improve bladder and bowel difficulties. The series will give an introduction to the Continence Service and discuss common types of bladder and bowel incontinence difficulties, such as overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence and functional incontinence. It will also look at how good bowel management can help with incontinence overall. The series will also feature service user stories and learn about the lived experience of someone with a bladder and/or bowel dysfunction.

This episode hears the story of a young service user with Multiple sclerosis and their lived experience of a bladder dysfunction. In a difference to the previous service user’s story, this episode presents a service user currently in the service and explores their symptoms and what might be contributing to their bladder dysfunction. We hear the strategies the service user is implementing to re-train their bladder and what other factors might be contributing to their bladder dysfunction. This episode It is supported by evidence based knowledge and guidance from the Northern Trust Continence Service staff.

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The Continence Challenge Podcast – A Service User’s Story

December 6, 2024

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The Continence Challenge Podcast – A Service User’s Story

December 6, 2024

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The Continence Challenge Podcast – Functional Incontinence and Bowel Management

December 5, 2024

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The Continence Challenge Podcast – Stress Urinary Incontinence