Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that women with stress urinary incontinence have access to information on the full range of treatment options available.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is in the process of producing guidance entitled ‘Urinary incontinence (update) and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management.’

The draft guideline published on 9 October 2018 makes clear that where stress incontinence is the predominant symptom in mixed urinary incontinence, clinicians should “discuss with the women the benefit of non-surgical management and medicines for [overactive bladder] before offering surgery.”

The final guideline is expected to be published in April this year.