Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a joined-up continence care pathway between the NHS, local authorities and care home providers to ensure residents receive appropriate and personalised continence support.

The 10-Year Health Plan will shift care from hospital to community, and will thereby help to drive more joint working in neighborhoods between primary care, pharmacies, community health care, and social care to help people to manage continence at home, helping them to have access to the right self-care, the right professional support so they aren’t passed from service to service, and reducing their need for emergency admissions to hospital.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance on continence care recommends commissioners and providers deliver high quality management of continence care provision delivered in an integrated way.