Continence containment products for children with SEND

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Dear Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

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

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Dear Mr Carter

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Liz

Liz Sheen | Information Governance Coordinator
Tel: 01223 348697 | Ext: 348697 | www.cuh.org.uk
eHospital | Box number 153
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge Biomedical Campus | Hills Road | Cambridge | CB2 0QQ
The Trust is: part of the National Institute for Health Research - Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre | and a member of Cambridge University Health Partners
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Freedom of Information Contact,

Dear Mr Carter

Please accept my apologies for our response to your Freedom of Information Request not being sent within the time-frame previously advised.

Our response will be sent as soon as possible.

Regards
Liz

Liz Sheen | Information Governance Coordinator
Tel: 01223 348697 | Ext: 348697 | www.cuh.org.uk
eHospital | Box number 153
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge Biomedical Campus | Hills Road | Cambridge | CB2 0QQ
The Trust is: part of the National Institute for Health Research - Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre | and a member of Cambridge University Health Partners
This email is confidential, see www.cuh.org.uk/email_disclaimer.html

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Sheen, Elizabeth,

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Dear Mr Carter

Following your request for information, please see the attached response letter.

Regards
Liz

Liz Sheen | Information Governance Coordinator
Tel: 01223 348697 | Ext: 348697 | www.cuh.org.uk
eHospital | Box number 153
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge Biomedical Campus | Hills Road | Cambridge | CB2 0QQ
The Trust is: part of the National Institute for Health Research - Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre | and a member of Cambridge University Health Partners
This email is confidential, see www.cuh.org.uk/email_disclaimer.html

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