
National Catheter Education Programme
We offer interactive, educational training sessions to multi-professional audiences.
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Our Proposal
The National Catheter Education Programme is a Health Education England funded initiative that is working to improve the care of patients with indwelling, urethral and supra-pubic catheters using an educational package. The main aims of the Programme are: • to improve the confidence of the workforce in dealing with catheters across acute, community and emergency […]
Project Background
A recent development at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) has been the inception of The National Catheter Training Project (NCTP) – a multi-professional educational (MPE) project that is linked to a systems-change goal. This is serving as a proof-of-concept endeavour and learning tool which, ultimately, aspires to embed similar education-centred systems-change […]
What are catheter associated problems?
To understand the nature and goals of our project, it is necessary to describe the current clinical issues relating to urinary catheter-care. First, it is a problem of scale: At any one time, an estimated 900 million humans on the planet have a urinary catheter in-situ – it is the most widely used medical appliance […]