Education
A book update sought:
A great opportunity for an ACA member(s) to influence the content of a chapter on bladder and bowel care in a nursing text. Find out more: Text book update
Education News for Continence Care
Nursing Times Continence Award 2008
The Nursing Times Continence Award, presented in association with the ACA, and supported by Tena (SCA), aims to reward best practice in continence care. The award is open to all nurses involved in continence promotion who are leading and supporting initiatives in primary and secondary care. For details of the 2008 awards click on Nursing Times awards 2008
BJN awards
Are you the Continence Nurse of the year? Enter yourself or nominate a colleague for the British Journal of Nursing Awards 2008 but hurry, the closing deadline is 14th April 2008. You can enter the Awards through the following link:
British Journal of Nursing awards 2008
29.10.07 - James Lind Alliance Working Partnership on Urinary Incontinence
The ACA has agreed, as an affiliate, to participate in the James Lind Alliance Working Partnership on Urinary Incontinence. This project is about helping patients, carers and clinicians to work together to identify and then to prioritise important areas of uncertainty about the effectiveness of treatments for urinary incontinence. When we speak of *important areas of uncertainty* we mean questions about treatments which are of day to day importance for patients, carers and the clinicians to whom they turn for help but which cannot be adequately answered by existing research evidence. Each participating organisation is consulting with its membership to ask what areas of uncertainty relating to the treatment of urinary incontinence have affected them.
There is a short questionnaire that you can complete, which you can access below. General guidance notes about how the questionnaire might be distributed have also been developed (below). Please return it to the James Lind address, which is detailed in the questionnaire. Thank you for your time and assistance.
Identifying important areas of uncertainty in the treatment or management of urinary incontinence (71KB)
27.09.07 - The Healthy Society
First major speech delivered by Alan Johnson as Secretary of State for Health, including excerpt on specialist nurses:
'......we should ensure that more of the primary care workforce, including specialist nurses, physios, social care workers etc, are able to take a lead in providing care for patients'
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/Speeches/DH_078397
27.09.07 - Current Needs of Nurse Consultants/Healthcare Practitioners and Aspiring Nurse Consultants
The Practice Development team would like to identify the current needs of nurse consultants/healthcare practitioners and aspiring nurse consultants to improve the range of information offered from this site and to increase networking opportunities to other nurse consultants and groups within the UK. Have a look and feed in to the Royal College of Nursing with your thoughts.
http://www.rcn.org.uk/resources/practicedevelopment/projects/consultantnurse/
17.09.07 - NICE Guidelines and Department of Health Consultations
The ACA has registered as a stakeholder for many different NICE Guidelines and Department of Health Consultations, and has subsequently collated members responses to provide a corporate response.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. It publishes guidance for health professionals based upon the best evidence available. It has a function across the NHS in England and Wales.
- Recent past consultations which are now available as guidelines include:
- CG 42 Dementia
- CG 49 Faecal Incontinence
- CG21 Falls
- CG2 Infection Control
- CG 35 Parkinsons
- CG40 Urinary Incontinence
- CG054 Urinary Tract Infection in Children
These Clinical Guidelines can all be sourced via the following link. http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG
The ACA is a stakeholder for the following guidelines in production.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Consultation 4th Sept to 1st Oct 07
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=451991
Antenatal care Consultation 4th Sept to 29th Oct 07
http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=451448
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Consultation 16th Aug to 11th Sept 07
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=448585
The ACA is currently involved in the Department of Health consultation of Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances -and related services- to primary care. This consultation is of considerable importance to those Continence services who use the services of delivery companies and company nurses for parts of their services, as there may be an effect upon the structure of provision. It is also of considerable importance to many of our corporate members.
Please take time to visit the proposals at www.dh.gov.uk\liveconsultations This consultation closes on Nov 29th 2007
Please email any comments to Cath Williams Catherine.Williams2@nhs.net 2 weeks before the end of the consultation, who will collate and return comments on behalf of the ACA.