Incontinence: Health Services

(asked on 2nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to help prevent incontinence as a result of (a) pregnancy and (b) the menopause.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 25th March 2021

The Nursing and Midwifery Council ‘Standards of Proficiency for Midwives’ include a requirement that registrants are able to provide support and postnatal care, which can include referral to services and resources for urinary or faecal incontinence. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to improve access to postnatal physiotherapy and for all women across England to have access to multidisciplinary pelvic health care perinatally by March 2024. This will be delivered through national perinatal pelvic health services.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have identified 14 early implementer systems which will help develop the model for these services from Quarter 4 2021/22 to improve the prevention, identification and specialist treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction around pregnancy and birth. Further to the postnatal work, during 2021/22 NHS England and NHS Improvement will consider options for improving prevention of incontinence in menopausal women.

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