Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of pelvic physiotherapy as a treatment for urinary stress incontinence.

No specific assessment has been made. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing evidence based guidance for the National Health Service in line with its established methods and processes.

In 2019, NICE published guideline, NG123, on the management of urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women which recommends the non-surgical management of urinary incontinence, including, that women with stress or mixed urinary incontinence should be offered a trial of supervised pelvic floor muscle training of at least three months' duration as first-line treatment.