Continence Service

We provide care and support to patients experiencing bladder or bowel dysfunction.

Our team of continence nurse specialists and administrative staff can provide support for a range of conditions. Specific treatments and investigations include:

  • Pelvic floor re-education: (including Electrical Stimulation and Bio-feedback). These treatments are used to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles and are used in the treatment of stress incontinence
  • Bladder re-training: A treatment for urgency and urge incontinence.
  • Urinary Catheters: For specialist advice, care and support.
  • Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC): Teaching and follow up for individuals performing ISC
  • Prostate Assessment (limited service): For fast track assessment of men with symptoms that suggest prostate enlargement
  • Bladder Scanning: Assessing bladder emptying by scanning the bladder with a portable ultrasound scanner can be arranged through the Continence Service
  • Urodynamic and Ano Rectal physiology investigations: These are specialist tests used in the investigation for bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Useful links

  • Bladder and Bowel Foundation
  • Continence Foundation
  • NICE - Guidelines for lower urinary tract symptoms. The management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
  • NICE - Urinary incontinence: The management of urinary incontinence in women
  • NICE - Faecal incontinence: The management of faecal incontinence in adults

Contacts

Our opening hours are 8.30am - 3.30pm, Monday-Friday excluding weekends and bank holidays.

Consultants

Ms Kim Davenport
Mr Hugh Gilbert
Mr John Henderson
Dr Jonathan Lightfoot
Miss Faith McMeekin
Mr Aloysius Okeke
Mr Jonathan Ord
Mr Biral Patel
Mr Muhammad Shafiq

Wards

Chedworth Suite
Kemerton Day Surgery Unit and Surgical Admissions Suite
Snowshill Ward

Information Leaflets

Transrectal ultrasound scan and biopsy of the prostate gland GHPI0317_01_17.pdf
pdf - 155.1 KB
Bladder urgency and Overactive Bladder syndrome (OAB) GHPI0531_02_17.pdf
pdf - 127.6 KB
Collection of Mid-Stream Sample of Urine (MSSU) for adults GHPI1185_01_17.pdf
pdf - 114.7 KB
Improving bowel function and control GHPI1412_01_17.pdf
pdf - 225.8 KB
Intermittent Self-Catheterisation (ISC) for adults GHPI0855_09_19.pdf
pdf - 724.0 KB
Trial Without Catheter (TWOC) GHPI1411_05_17.pdf
pdf - 88.2 KB
Urinary flow rates tests with ultrasound bladder scans GHPI0680_08_17.pdf
pdf - 70.3 KB
Botox® - in the treatment of an Over-Active Bladder (OAB) GHPI1123_03_18
pdf - 219.2 KB
Catheter Passport GHPI1357_02_19
pdf - 935.1 KB
Bladder chemotherapy GHPI0111_08_19
pdf - 524.6 KB
Improving control of your bladder after Transurethral Resection of Prostate Gland or Bladder Neck Incision GHPI0534_12_17
pdf - 277.8 KB
Trans Urethral Resection of Bladder Tumour (TURBT) GHPI0725_09_18
pdf - 319.6 KB
Intermittent Self-Dilatation (ISD) for adults GHPI0900_12_18
pdf - 354.2 KB
Robotic assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy GHPI1286_09_19
pdf - 618.1 KB
My Medical Record Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tracker GHPI1480_09_18
pdf - 660.9 KB
An introduction to the Gloucestershire Urological Cancer Multisciplinary Team Service GHPI1429_01_18
pdf - 382.4 KB
Flexible cystoscopy GHPI0109_06_17
pdf - 108.5 KB
Gloucestershire Urology Assessment Clinic GHPI1212_07_17
pdf - 87.8 KB
Laparoscopic nephrectomy and nephroureterectomy (Keyhole surgery to remove the kidney) GHPI1318_09_18
pdf - 551.7 KB
Trans Urethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP) GHPI0108_01_18
pdf - 324.4 KB

Also of interest

Gynaecology

Urology

Physiotherapy

Undergoing continence assessment - information for adults
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