East Lancashire Hospitals Trust NHS Bowel and Bladder Service

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust NHS Community Bladder and Bowel Service provides a specialist nursing assessment, treatment and management service for those individuals experiencing bladder and bowel incontinence and chronic bladder and bowel conditions from the age of 4 years old.

The service supports and promotes physical and emotional health and wellbeing for children and young people who have medium to long-term bladder and bowel problems.

The service aims to promote continence to ensure that optimum health, hygiene and developmental goals are achieved.

The service offers a range of expertise in bladder and bowel conditions including:
• Chronic constipation
• Faecal incontinence
• Hirschsprung's disease/ano-rectal malformations
• Daytime enuresis
• Nocturnal enuresis
• Neuropathic bladder and bowel conditions
• Continence management systems
• Toilet training advice for children with special needs

Interventions could range from a one-off session to on-going support and involvement with the service depending on the presenting problem.

Who to contact

Contact Name: Bladder and Bowel Service, Accrington Victoria Hospital
Telephone: 01254 735002 01254 735002
E-mail: bladderandbowelservice@elht.nhs.uk
Website: https:elht.nhs.uk/services/bladder-and-bowel-service
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Where to go

Name: Accrington Victoria Hospital
Address: Haywood Road
Accrington
Lancashire
Postcode: BB5 6AS
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Availability

Age Ranges

4- 19 years old paediatrics
19-25 + adult service

Referral required

Yes

Referral Details

The Bladder and Bowel Service is provided for the residents of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen who are registered with a local GP Practitioner.

The service accepts referrals from health care professionals only, for example Consultant, GP, School Nurse. Referrals are electronic on the service referral form.

Please note that when referring men to our service, a prostate health review must be undertaken prior to referral

Other notes

Contacts for further information

www.childhoodconstipation.com
www.eric.org.uk
www.disabledliving.co.uk/PromoCon/About
www.bladderandbowelfoundation.org