Continence Clinic
Our nurse-led Continence Clinic provides assessment, investigations and advice for people experiencing urinary and faecal incontinence issues.
Services provided by our team of Continence Clinical Nurse Specialists include:
- conservative management and strategies, including:
- fluid and dietary advice
- bladder retraining
- pelvic floor muscle advice and support
- bowel and constipation management
- toileting programs
- education and advice on continence aids and equipment
- assessing eligibility to access funding subsidies and referral to other agencies
- specialist referrals.
The clinic also removes urinary catheters (which is called a Trial of void) on referral. Please note appointments for this procedure are usually given within 2 weeks of receiving the referral unless clinically indicated otherwise.
Referral criteria
All Continence Clinic referrals are managed through the Central Referral Service (external site) or via the internal E-Referral service.
Adult patients can be referred by their general practitioner (GP), specialist or allied health professional for issues with both urinary and/or faecal incontinence.
Paediatric patient referrals are accepted for children from the age of 4 years old for constipation/bowel issues or from 5 ½ years old for daytime wetting issues.
Children experiencing only night-time wetting require a referral to the Enuresis nurse at Kwinana Community Health and Development Centre Enuresis clinic – phone 9419 2266 or fax 9439 1088.
More information
Visit the National Continence Helpline (external site) or phone 1800 33 00 66.
Visit Healthy WA (external link) for detailed information about catheters and catheter care:
- What is a catheter? (Healthy WA)
- Caring for your catheter (Healthy WA)
- General hygiene tips for your catheter (Healthy WA)
- Troubleshooting for your catheter (Healthy WA)
- Your lifestyle with a catheter (Healthy WA)
- Your indwelling urinary catheter (Healthy WA)
- Your self-intermittent catheter (Healthy WA)
- Your suprapubic catheter (Healthy WA)
Contact us
Outpatient Department 3 reception: phone 9599 4822
Fax: 9599 4873
Location
Outpatient Department 3
Level 1
Rockingham General Hospital
Opening hours
8am – 4pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and alternate Fridays