Maintaining and promoting vulval and vaginal health are essential skills for all health care professionals caring for women with pelvic floor dysfunctions. This webinar aims to highlight common conditions that can impact on vaginal health and conservative measures to manage these. It will provide un update of the assessment and management of incontinence associated dermatitis and finally it will discuss product choice to help contain incontinence whilst promoting and maintaining vulval and vaginal health and skin integrity.
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Speakers
MBBCh, MSc, MRCOG
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Mr Kamel is the founder and lead consultant of the reputable, BSSVD accredited, multidisciplinary specialist vulval services in Croydon university hospital.
Strategic Healthcare Partner-Continence(Essity)
I have recently joined Essity, as part of the Strategic Healthcare Partner Team with a specialist interest in Continence, after leaving the NHS, as a Continence Service Lead and previous Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Bladder and Bowel Forum.
PhD MSc, PGCEA, RN, FRCN
Senior Lecturer, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London
Sue Woodward worked clinically within the field of neurosciences nursing almost exclusively since she qualified as a registered nurse in 1988 and has worked in a number of regional neuroscience units around London. Sue became a full-time lecturer at King's College London in 1999. She completed a four-year term as head of department for specialist and palliative care and completed her PhD studies in 2011. Sue has co-edited the “Oxford Handbook of Neuroscience Nursing” (2009) and "Neuroscience Nursing - Evidence-based Practice" (2011), the only two neuroscience nursing texts published in the UK.
Sue’s current research focuses on bowel management in inflammatory bowel disease and Multiple Sclerosis and incontinence associated dermatitis. Sue has particular interests and expertise in bladder and bowel care within neuroscience, management of patients with long-term neurological conditions and clinical education. During her career Sue has been Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Neurosciences Forum committee, founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Commissioning Editor of the British Journal of Nursing and was a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for urinary incontinence in neurological disorders. Sue was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2017.
Moderator
Angie has been working in the Urogynaecology Department at King’s College Hospital since 2007 and is currently the lead nurse / nurse cystoscopist. She is actively involved in research and was awarded a PhD in Urogynaecology in 2019 investigating sexual function in women with overactive bladder. In 2019 Angie was also awarded RCN credentialing for advanced level nursing practice. To date she has published over 45 articles in peer reviewed journals and has written book chapters and contributed to National guidelines. As well as her clinical and research activities she provides advice to governmental bodies including NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) throughout the UK. She is the current chair of the Nursing and Midwifery special interest group within IUGA.