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National Catheter Education Programme

We offer interactive, educational training sessions to multi-professional audiences.

What We Do

Free Courses

Using animated videos we share good catheter practice to improve your confidence in dealing with common catheter related problems.
The sessions are interactive and feature direct input from Urology Specialists at St Peter’s Hospital.

Free Resources

We are a portal offering you a wealth of information in relation to catheters.
Our main focus is to improve staff confidence when dealing with catheterised patients by refreshing knowledge and providing simple guidance on how to overcome some of the most common catheter related issues.

Free Support

We are here to help you and offer a comprehensive education package designed by a multi-professional team of urology experts which includes some practical skills as appropriate for your staff.

Testimonials

Caroline Hickey

” I have learnt a great deal at this course and I have changed my practice “

Paula Dias

” I really enjoyed the training session. Was well performed and the videos were very good. The contents were very interesting and very helpful for me as a nurse. “

Vicky Main

” The course was fantastic!!!
Could you also add in female catheterisation as well as males? “

Usha Desai

The catheter modules were all excellent and I certainly gained a lot of useful information. Please would you develop and create a similar module for intermittent catheters.

Joyce Sims

Really good course, very well delivered – thank you. Learnt loads. I know it is basic but you might want to mention how csu’s are taken in the rarity that they are needed from a long term catheter – you can’t assume that people know to use the sampling port – you might be surprised.

Cheryl Thomas

This course was very interesting and the power point presentation was put together well

Jennifer Graham

I have learnt so much today, I work in clinical training freelance, and can’t wait to go out and deliver such key points . I also still work clinically so I will be able to explain more to my colleagues too. Thank you !

Angela Widdup

A very informative session and a great presentation. Thank you !

Karolina Kluz

Thank you, it was very nice and useful training.

Mollie Smith

In my personal experience I feel I should have attended a “inserting a catheter course” before hand to get a better concept of the idea however I’m sure most professionals on the course would have already done this previously.

Ellen Scholz-Conway

Extremely informative and very easy to understand

Adrian Broomhall

The course was good it didn’t feel it was for 3 hours. Well presented !

Pauline Boughen

Very hospital and male based. Catheter passports should be promoted as good practice as this is often the only information community nurses get.

Lindsay Hendrick

I found the course so beneficial, and very educational. I learnt so much and feel I have developed my underlying foundation knowledge in catheters. The only think i would have liked was a handout or access to look over the slides again. Phillip delivered the course so well and made it really easy to understand. Invaluable information for all health care professionals. Thank you

OUR LATEST

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 […]