Training for healthcare professionals

High quality paediatric continence training courses for healthcare professionals, covering healthy and complex bladders and bowels, nocturnal enuresis and toilet training children with additional needs. Find out more about our standard courses here.

Click on the courses below for information on our upcoming training events and to book your place, or contact our Learning & Development Manager - tel: 0117 301 2102, email: [email protected].

In addition to our one-day courses, we also offer bespoke training to meet your team's specific requirements.

Complex Bladders & Bowels - London

Includes an introduction to Clean Intermittent Catheterisation, management of indwelling catheters, Mitrofanoff care and bowel washouts via ACE and rectally. This course is aimed at health care professionals who have attended our Healthy Bladders & Bowels training or who have at least 6 month's experience in the field of paediatric continence. Read more

Nocturnal Enuresis - Cambridge

Course, aimed at health and education professionals, introducing the 'Three Systems' model for understanding bedwetting, with a focus on a child-orientated, evidence-based approach to enuresis treatment. Read more

Toilet Training, including Children with Autism and other Additional Needs - Coventry

Course, aimed at health and education professionals, looking at how to train children in bowel and bladder control with particular attention given to children with learning difficulties and additional needs. Read more

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Become a bedwetting detective

Watch our short animated film for clues to help you work out why your child is bedwetting.

Guides to children's bowel and bladder problems

Resources and leaflets to help with potty training, daytime wetting, bedwetting and bowel problems.

Top 10 potty training tips

Top 10 potty training tips from the experts in toileting. Use these tips to successfully teach your child to use the potty.

How to treat constipation

Childhood constipation is treatable. The earlier it’s recognised, the easier it is to treat. Find out how laxatives, diet, toilet routine & anal irrigation help.

Bowel problems: FAQs

Answers to common questions about children's bowel problems covering constipation, faecal soiling, laxative treatment and children with additional needs.

Children who will only poo in a nappy and other toilet avoiders

Insisting on wearing a nappy to poo is normal for kids who are potty training, but some would happily poo in a nappy for years. Break the habit with these tips.

A Parent's Guide to Disimpaction

If your child has been constipated for more than a few days your doctor or nurse may recommend a disimpaction regime. This means giving laxatives in sufficiently large quantities to ‘clear out’ all the accumulated poo. Read our Parent's Guide to Disimpaction.