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Community Continence

Service

Locality: Mid Hampshire, South West
Type of Care: Community

Please select a service (Solent or Southern Health) for patients based on their GP surgery. Most patients will be referred to the Solent Service. If your GP surgery is not listed in the document below, please refer to the Southern Health service.

Patients will be assessed by the Continence Service and follow a Level 1 or Level 2 pathway, determined by them. Level 1 patients will require containment products to manage and maintain their dignity and quality of life.  Level 2 patients will require highly specialised assessment.

The Children’s Continence Service sees children from the age of 2-16 with soiling, constipation, day wetting and night wetting. They also support children with additional needs with toileting support.

Provision of containments products is also provided for those children with additional needs from the age of 4 years that are eligible.

Referral criteria

Our service accepts referrals for:

  • Nocturnal (night time) Enuresis (wetting)
  • Diurnal (day time) Enuresis (wetting)                                                                     
  • Dysuria                                                                                                
  • Frequency and urgency of micturition                                                                   
  • Constipation                                                                                     
  • Faecal Incontinence (soiling)

The age ranges accepted by the service are:

  • Children/young people aged 2 to 16 years with constipation and soiling, 4 to 16 years with day wetting, frequency and urgency, and 5 to 16 years with night wetting.
  • Young people with learning difficulties can be seen up to the age of 19 years.

The following referrals should continue to be sent to the hospital:

  • Hypertension
  • Haematuria
  • Proteinuria.

Click on the referral form below to refer into this service:

Solent Children’s Continence Service Referral formDownload

Phone number 0300 123 3797

Email address SNHS.Childrenscontinence@nhs.net

Post address: Adelaide Health Centre, 2nd Floor William MacLeod Way, Southampton, SO16 4XE

The service promotes continence and the management of incontinence, along with all aspects of pelvic floor dysfunction, through interventions by specifically trained Nurses and a Womens Health Physiotherapist. These clinicians provide an assessment service for clients with bladder, bowel and pelvic floor difficulties following clinical pathways agreed with consultants and GPs.

Hampshire-GP-practices-that-can-refer-into-Solent-Community-Continence-September-2022Download

Please note, Solent will accept referrals from for Cornerways and Fordingbridge but don’t provide products due to delivery distance, but Southern Health will provide them with products.

Solent – Community Bladder & Bowel Service Adult Referral FormDownload

The Southern Health continence service is able to offer information and support to individuals who require advice regarding the promotion of continence, and the management of incontinence; joint visits are offered for patients with complex bladder / bowel needs.

They will accept any patient 18 years and over with or without bladder/bowel incontinence, excluding:

  • End of life – due to the patient having to wait up to 28 days for an appointment. If incontinence pads are required, complete and email the product request form to SHFT.ContinenceService@nhs.net. If you do not have access to the form please refer on to the ICT/CCT to complete.
  • Catheterisation – Excluding teaching of Clean Intermittent Self Catheterisation
  • Bowel preparations such as suppositories and enemas.
  • Those patients that require a clinic appointment under the Solent Bladder & Bowel Service should continue to be referred to Community Bladder and Bowel Service, Bitterne Health Centre, Commercial Street, Southampton SO18 6BT; Snhs.bladderandbowelwest@nhs.net.
Continence Referral Form – SHFTDownload