Continence containment products for children with SEND
Dear Lanarkshire NHS Board,
Please can you provide me with your policy on continence products for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Specifically, I’d appreciate any written policies so I can compare these to national guidance.
Do you have a minimum age you will start to provide continence containment products from?
What are your policies around the type of containment products you will and won’t provide?
How many individual pads do you allow per day?
What is your appeal process for a parent or guardian is not happy with the products you are providing?
When allocating products do you give consideration, as per national guidance, to the individual child’s specific needs and their dignity? For example, if a child can put on a pull-up but couldn’t manage a nappy type product would you provide pull-ups? If not, apart from cost saving what is your justification for this?
For a parent to go out and purchase one pack of pads would cost significantly more than the difference you are saving by not supplying pull-ups, but the emotional stress and strain on family life and loss of dignity to the child are priceless. The cost saving by removing certain products such as pull-ups is minimal on an individual basis. If you would not provide a pull-up, would you consider allowing the parent or guardian to make up the extra financial difference that the pull-up would cost so they could be supplied with the product there child needs?
Yours faithfully,
Marc Carter
Dear Mr Carter,
I acknowledge receipt of your request for information which is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information legislation and is receiving attention. I shall contact you further when I am in a position to respond more fully to your request.
Yours sincerely
Linda Brownlie
Freedom of Information Officer
NHS Lanarkshire
Dear Mr Carter
I attach the response to your recent request for information. If you have
any further queries regarding the response please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Yours sincerely
Bob Smyth
Bob Smyth
Freedom of Information officer
NHS Lanarkshire
Kirklands Hospital
Fallside Road
Bothwell
G71 8BB
01698 855591
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