Coventry Guidance
Coventry Paediatric Enuresis Clinic Referral Criteria
GPs should refer children to the School Nursing Team for initial Tier 1 advice having excluded and treated UTI or constipation.
The Paediatric Continence Service accepts referrals from the School Nursing Team for Children aged 5 to 18 registered with a Coventry GP practice with:
- Daytime wetting associated with an overactive bladder
- Nocturnal enuresis
Referrals will ONLY be accepted from registered nurses working in the SCHOOL NURSING TEAM after the child and parent have been offered formal tier one advice and follow up using a School Nursing Team referral form (copy attached)
About TIER 1 advice
NICE guidance and The Paediatric continence forum recommended that TIER 1 ADVICE should include:
- Advice and support to help promote ‘healthy’ bladders and bowels, to reduce the risk of problems such as constipation and urinary tract infections, developing or once developed being missed with referral to GP for treatment
- Demystification of bedwetting and daytime wetting Explaining that it is not deliberate, nor is it the child’s fault and that the child should not be told off or punished and an explanation of the reasons why it may be happening
- Encourage day time water-based drinks (see fluid advice).
- Avoid caffeinated, fizzy and energy drinks and provide Information about how much fluid children should be drinking
- Avoid high salt and high protein foods late in the day (these increase urine production)
- Encourage regular daytime toileting (about two hourly)
- Avoid all food and drink in the last hour before sleep
- To try and pass urine before settling for sleep each night.
- Restrict screen use up to one hour use before bed
- Consider a trial of at least two consecutive nights without products (e.g. pyjama pants, nappies) and provide information about bedding protection.
- Advise parents not to lift/wake the child when they go to bed (The only times when lifting may be acceptable is in the short term when it is particularly important that the bed stays dry e.g. when on holiday)
- Consider access to the toilet at night. If this is difficult try to find ways to make it easier e.g. torch by the bed or potty in the room
- Consider whether the child is able to get out of bed, or has anxieties or fears that may result in difficulties getting up e.g. fear of the dark
- Advise parents/carers to only use rewards for things that are in the child’s control. Remember that a child cannot control what happens when they are asleep. Therefore, encouragement and positive comments should be made for dry nights, but rewards (if used) should focus on things that are in the child’s control, such as drinking recommended levels and toileting during the day, for toileting before sleep, helping to strip their own bed etc. Do not give rewards for dry nights, but do notice and praise any efforts made by the child
- Monitor progress by keeping a diary of wet and dry nights, of waking after wetting, of waking to use the toilet
Moat House School Nurses
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Allesley Primary | Clifford Bridge | Edgewick | Aldermans Green |
Christ the King | Courthouse Green | Henley Green | Broad Heath Prm |
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Hill Farm | Holy Family | Potters Green | John Gulson Prm |
Holbrooks | John Shelton | SS Peter & Paul | Longford Park |
Hollyfast | Little Heath | St Elizabeths | Stanton Bridge |
Joseph Cash | Parkgate | St John Fisher | St Laurences |
Keresley Grange | Pearl Hyde | St Patricks | Three Spires |
Moseley | Ravensdale | Whittle Academy | |
Radford | Richard Lee | ||
SEVA | St Gregorys | ||
Spongate | Walsgrave | ||
St Augustines | Whitmore Park | ||
St Osburgs | Wyken Croft | ||
Secondary | Secondary | Secondary | Secondary |
Barrs Hill | Caludon Castle | Cardinal Wiseman | Eden |
Coundon Court | Grace | Stoke Park | Foxford |
SEVA | Lyng Hall | ||
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Cardinal Newman – cover shared by all Moat House School Nurses
Corley – cover shared by all of Moat House School Nurses |
Charter Avenue School Nurses
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All Souls | Cannon Park | All Saints | Aldermoor Farm |
Charter Prm | Earlsdon Prm | Allesley Hall | Corpus Christie |
Finham Prm | Gosford Park | Eastern Green Prm | Ernesford Grange |
Frederick Bird | Grange Farm | Leigh C of E | Howes Prm |
Our Lady of Assumption | Hearsall | Limbrick Wood | Manor Park |
St Christophers | Sacred Heart | Mount Nod | St Annes |
St Mary and St Benedict’s | Sidney Stringer | Park Hill | St Bartholomew’s |
Whoberley Hall | Southfields | St Andrews | Sowe Valley |
Woodfield Prm | Stoke Heath | St John Vianney | Stretton C of E |
Stoke Prm | St Johns C of E | Willenhall | |
Templars | St Thomas More | ||
Whitley Abbey | Stivichall | ||
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WMG for Young Engineers | Westwood | Finham Park 2 | |
Woodfield
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West Coventry Academy
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Ernesford Grange
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Rugby & South Warwickshire Guidance
About the Compass service
A school nursing service for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 5-19, led by school nurses for the promotion, prevention and protection of children and young people’s health and wellbeing.
Our service is available to all Warwickshire school aged children and young people from 5-19 years old (up to 25 years old for people with special educational needs).
The service follows Warwickshire Safeguarding Children’s Board policies and procedures and forms part of multi-agency services for children, young people and families where there are child protection or safeguarding concerns.
Our caring and friendly school health and wellbeing team are available at a time that suits you and at a place where you feel comfortable.
How the service can help
We provide health and advice on a range of health topics, which we can share with you:
- Individually, face to face or by phone
- In group workshops
- Via our confidential parent / carer text messaging service
Contact us if you need support as a child / young person with:
- Healthy eating
- Dental health
- Friendships
- Bullying
- Anxieties about changing schools
Contact us if you need support as a parent / carer with:
- Parenting
- Behaviour
- Fussy eating
- Sleep
- Continence
- Referral onto additional services
Support for young people on topics such as:
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- Emotional wellbeing including stress and anxiety
- Relationships
How to access the service
If you feel that you, or someone you know, would benefit from our support or would like some more information about the service, you can get in touch anytime via:
- Our confidential downloadable referral form
- ChatHealth confidential text messaging for young people aged 11-19 years on 07507 331 525
- Parentline confidential text messaging for parents / carers on 07520 619 376
- Your local school nursing team
Community Paediatric Service
For children with enuresis issues who have had all the help they can from the School Nurses as well as Doctors, but still have bed wetting issues can be referred to the Community Paediatric service delivered by South Warwickshire Foundation Trust.
About Community Paediatrics
We see children and families with a range of long term conditions for assessment, investigation, management and support.
In particular, we provide medical care to children and young people with complex health conditions, developmental problems, disabilities, life limiting conditions and social vulnerability.
We carry out statutory assessments for children to support Education and Health Care Plans, for those looked after by the Local Authority, and for those with suspected abuse or neglect.
We also provide advice and support to families requiring palliative care and following the death of a child.
We accept referrals from GPs, health visitors, school nurses, allied health professionals and other hospital and community doctors. We will see children and young people up to their sixteenth birthday and we will continue to see young people with complex needs up to their nineteenth birthday.
Children must be registered with a Warwickshire GP or in a Special School.
Location / how to find us:
The paediatricians in South Warwickshire are based at Warwick Hospital and Crown Way Clinic in Leamington.
Clinics are held at Warwick Hospital, Round Oak School, Welcombe Hills School, Ridgeway School, Crown Way Clinic and Stratford Health Centre.
The paediatricians in North Warwickshire are based at Riversley Park Children’s Centre in Nuneaton. Clinics are held in Bedworth Health Centre, Riversley Park Centre, Atherstone, Exhall Grange School, Oakwood School and Woodlands School.
The paediatricians in Rugby are based at the Orchard Centre. Clinics are held in the Orchard Centre and Brooke School.
https://www.swft.nhs.uk/our-services/children-and-young-peoples-services/community-paediatrics.
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