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NEWSLETTER
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| Welcome |
Welcome to the first Clinical Leadership Programme (CLP) newsletter of 2025. This edition is devoted to letting you know what’s new for January, and we have already been busy to improve your CLP experience!
We have updated the CLP hub, home of all things CLP, to make it easier to navigate and access our growing bank of resources. As you will see below, we will be adding even more regular content to both the CLP hub and closed FB group, to help you to keep learning, discussing and developing your practice.
Whether you read this newsletter, contribute to the FB group, visit the CLP Hub website, or do all three, we really value your support and participation, and in turn want to provide you with the support you need via the CLP throughout 2025.
So as always, we would love to hear from you. Please let us know what you would find useful to help you reach your career goals in the year ahead, or if you would like to contribute to the CLP in any way.
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| Hub highlights this month |
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| Understanding evidence-based practice series |
| This month we kick off our new series on evidence-based practice. The first article presents a summary of what evidence-based practice is, and highlights the three pillars upon which it is based – best available evidence, clinical judgement and patient choice. It also discusses how two of the pillars, clinical judgement and patient choice, are often overlooked at the expense of a focus solely on evidence. The series will go on to help clinicians understand the different types of evidence available and what it means for clinical decision making, to meet both therapeutic needs and those of the patient. |
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Case study
Follow our new case study feature each month throughout 2025 to challenge all of your clinical leadership skills! This month features a clinical scenario —
read on to see if you can diagnose the problem... |
This month’s case is submitted by Linda Nazarko, an independent consultant nurse:
‘An 82 year old female resident of a nursing home presented with moderate vascular dementia, hypertension and left-sided weakness following a stroke some years previously. The patient was doubly incontinent and used an indwelling catheter, in addition to a continence pad. Care-home staff referred to the consultant nurse as they were alarmed as her catheter tubing and urine bag had turned deep purple in colour.’
Do you know the cause?
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| Standardise your practice with the me+ Intermittent catheterisation consultation checklist |
With a standard NHS appointment lasting for 10–15 minutes, and a more specialist consultation lasting from anything between from 20 minutes to an hour, there is a lot of ground to cover for both patient and clinician when carrying out an intermittent catheterisation consultation.
The me+ pre-consultation checklist was developed by our CLP partners, convatec, in conjunction with a global panel of experts to standardise continence assessment. The tool, now endorsed by the British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN), can help you to make sure that you cover all the key components of assessment in a systematic way, at each stage of your patient’s journey.
Take a look to see how it can help you to standardise and streamline your consultations!
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| Also through the Hub this month: |
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Patient story - Steve Kearley is a family man and wheelchair rugby enthusiast, as well as a patient advocate covering Texas. Hear what he has to say about living life to the full with a C6 spinal cord injury, and how it might help to inspire your patients.
Join our closed FB group to share news and views, and access extra resources weekly!
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Set up a free e-portfolio to track and store all the documentation you need to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) revalidation requirements.
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| Convatec news and views |
We are delighted to announce that the convatec me+ support platform, which was launched at the BAUN conference in 2024, has now received their official endorsement.
Convatec Continence Care launched the me+ support programme to provide extensive support and education materials for both clinicians and patients. The resources are arranged into three sections: pre-consultation, patient consultation and on-going support, to help you to easily navigate and identify the best materials to use with your patient.
The me+ programme also includes emotional support and wellbeing tools, developed in conjunction with mental health professionals and Dr Sula Windgassen, a health psychologist who specialises in improving the psychological, physical and personal effects of trauma, stress and chronic illness through the use of evidenced and effective protocols.
While this newsletter and the CLP hub will give you monthly reminders of the different resources available via the me+ programme, remember you can also explore the programme at your leisure by visiting the me+ website.
However you choose to access me+, we hope you find it helpful, and would love to hear your thoughts.
Sue Thoms, Commercial Director, Continence Care, UKI
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