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Thursday 23rd April

Princes Ballroom

08.30 Welcome and Introduction to the Meeting: Ms Carmel Ramage, Consultant Urogynaecologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

08.45 Session 1: Childhood

Chairs: Ms Carmel Ramage,  Ms Anne Bowyer

08.45  Keynote Lecture 1: Born in Bradford: can a research study change a city? 

Professor John Wright, Specialist in Epidemiology, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

09.25  Childhood: Continence in Children – a Multidisciplinary Approach.

Alex Turner, Consultant Paediatric Urologist and his team (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust).

10.00 Oral/Oral Poster Presentations Session 1 OASI + Other Topics

Oral Presentations: 7 + 3 minutes each.

10.05  O1  IS RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH ANAL INCONTINENCE AND OBSTRUCTIVE DEFECATION? A MULTICENTRE CASE-CONTROL STUDY USING ELECTRONIC PROM DATA

T. J. Curtis, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10.15  O2  ORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY (CCM) IDENTIFIES SMALL NERVE FIBRE DAMAGE IN PATIENTS WITH MESH ASSOCIATED PAIN SYNDROME (MAPS)

H. Badri, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

10.25  O3  A HEALTH ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MIXED-USE (MULTI- AND SINGLE-USE) INTERMITTENT CATHETER MANAGEMENT COMPARED WITH SINGLE-USE ONLY

M. Macaulay, University of Southampton

10.35  O4  EVALUATING THE RAPID UROPATHOGEN IDENTIFIER LODESTAR DX AGAINST STANDARD CULTURE AND DIPSTICK FOR PRE-OPERATIVE SCREENING

C. Musabyimana, Royal Berkshire Hospital

10.45  O5  COMPARISON BETWEEN MIXED-USE (MULTI- AND SINGLE-USE) INTERMITTENT CATHETER MANAGEMENT WITH SINGLE-USE ONLY: A NON-INFERIORITY RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

M. Macaulay, University of Southampton

Oral Posters: 2 + 3 minutes each

11.55  OP1  BLADDER DYSFUNCTION AFTER SURGERY FOR CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME: GIRFT GUIDELINES AND AN UNDERSERVED GROUP?

H. Ding, King's NHS Foundation Trust

11.00  OP2  VIDEO ABSTRACT: TOLERABILITY OF BULKAMID INJECTIONS UNDER LOCAL ANAESTHETIC AS AN OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE

A. Athavale, Worcestershire Royal Hospital

11.05  OP3  OUTCOMES OF SNM IN PATIENTS WITH FND FROM A SINGLE HIGH VOLUME U.K. CENTER

A.Hashmi, University College London Hospital

11.10  OP4  WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOFILMS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF PAIN ON MEDICAL IMPLANTS, SUCH AS CONTINENCE MESHES? A SCOPING REVIEW

J. P. O'Sullivan, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

11.15  OP5  DOES PRIOR ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT INFLUENCE RESPONSE TO TRANSCUTANEOUS TIBIAL NERVE STIMULATION IN WOMEN WITH OVERACTIVE BLADDER AND URGE URINARY INCONTINENCE? A SEQUENTIAL COHORT STUDY IN ROUTINE CLINICAL PRACTICE

K. Sellers, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust

Discussion time

11.30  Break: Posters in Forster Suite and Exhibition in French Ballroom and Landing

Oral/Oral Poster presentations:

12.00  Session 2 General

Oral Presentations: 7 + 3 minutes each

12.05  O6  CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? A BLINDED COMPARISON OF UROLOGY CONSULTANT AND AI-GENERATED ADVICE FOR RECURRENT UTIS

L. Sepesiova, Leighton Hospital, Crewe

12.15  O7  A STRUCTURED MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL TO SUSTAIN SACRAL NEUROMODULATION FOR LOWER URINARY TRACT DYSFUNCTION: 8-YEAR OUTCOMES

V. P. Shadananan, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

12.25  O8  BLADDER NECK DESCENT (BND0 IN MRI DEFECATING PROCTOGRAPHY (MRI-DP) COMPARED WITH BLAIVAS-OLSSON (BOC) CLASSIFICATION AS A PREDICTOR OF SURGICAL OUTCOME FOR STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE (SUI)

K. Pace, University College London Hospitals

12.35  O9  MITROFANOSCOPY FINDINGS AND SUBSEQUENT SURGICAL CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT - OBSERVATIONS FROM A 2-YEAR PATIENT COHORT

K. Pace, University College London Hospitals

12.45  O10  INTEGRATING THE LODESTAR DX RAPID URINE ANALYSER FOR REAL-TIME UROPATHOGEN IDENTIFICATION AND ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP IN UROLOGY OUTPATIENTS

S. Kazi, Royal Berkshire Hospital

Oral Posters: 2 + 3 minutes each

12.55  OP6  RE-DESIGNING UROGYNAECOLOGY SERVICES - AN ICB WIDE PARTNERSHIP APPROACH

A.Rantell, King's College Hospital

13.00  OP7  THE ROLE OF PATIENT DECISION AIDS IN UROGYNAECOLOGY: QUALITATIVE REVIEW OF SHARED DECISION MAKING

R. Athey, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

13.05  OP8  IS THERE A CLINICAL VALUE IN HISTOLOGICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EXPLANTED MESH SPECIMENS?

A. Rahman, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

13.10  OP9  AUTOLOGOUS FASCIA LATA FOR APICAL SUPPORT FOLLOWING THE UK MESH PAUSE: A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL SERVICE EVALUATION

E. Doxford-Hook, University of Leeds

Discussion time

13.15  Lunch Break: Exhibition in French Ballroom and Landing Break: Posters in Forster Suite.

13.45 Fringe meeting: Urogynaecology Specialist Nurses: pop in/networking event led by Angie Rantell

14.15  Keynote Lecture 2:  Life After Adversity: an inspirational account of a journey through physical and emotional challenges to return to his surgical career and find new purpose as a patient advocate.

Mohammed Belal, Consultant Urology Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Session 2: How Reproduction Changes Things:

14.50  Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI): postpartum urinary retention management in the short and long term.

Fidan Israfil-Bayli, Consultant In Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

  

15.15  Pelvic Floor Dysfunction from a Colorectal View.

Sonia Lockwood, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

15.40  Implementing Perinatal Pelvic Health Services Across West Yorkshire. 

Debi Gibson, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)

16.05 - 16.35 Break: Posters in Forster Suite and Exhibition in French Ballroom and Landing

16.35  EVOLVE: Evaluating national use of the ICIQ-PPHSAQ

Tom Gray. 

16.40  Role of the PPHS Midwife.

Lisa Thompson, Specialist Midwife for Perinatal Pelvic Health Service (PPHS), Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

17. 05  Oral Abstract and Oral  Poster:

Session 3   Topic: OASI

Oral Presentations: 7 + 3 minutes each

17.05  O11  A COMPARISON OF THD® ANOPRESS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION ANORECTAL MANOMETRY IN WOMEN WITH OBSTETRIC ANAL SPHINCTER INJURY

K. Y. Lor, King’s College Hospital, London

17.15  O12  PILOT STUDY EXPLORING THE PREVALENCE OF LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS (LUTS) IN PREGNANCY AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD IN NORTHERN IRELAND

E. McNeill, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency, Belfast

17.25  O13  EAUS SPHINCTER DEFECTS AND PELVIC FLOOR OUTCOMES

I. Banerjee, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

17.35  O14  SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF SACRAL NEUROMODULATION DURING PREGNANCY: A 15-YEAR REVIEW FROM A SINGLE HIGH-VOLUME UK CENTRE

V. P. Shadananan, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

Oral Poster: 2 + 3 minutes each

17.45  OP10  BREASTFEEDING AFTER OBSTETRIC ANAL SPHINCTER INJURY: MULTIDOMAIN PELVIC FLOOR SYMPTOMS AND OBJECTIVE FINDINGS ADJUSTED FOR ANAL SPHINCTER DEFECT SEVERITY

K. Y. Lor, King’s College Hospital, London

Discussion time

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Friday 24th April 

Princes Ballroom

09.00 Welcome:

Session 3:  Midlife

09.05  The Pelvic Floor and Sex Through the Ages.

Claudine Domoney, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

09.30  The Management of Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause.

Amy Tatham, GP, Bradford District ICB Lead for Women’s Health

09.55  Psychosexual Issues at Menopause Including the Impact of Trauma and Cancer.

Angela Wright, GP, Psychosexual Medicine Specialist and BMS Accredited Menopause Specialist.

10.20 - 10.50 Break: Posters in Forster Suite and Exhibition in French Ballroom and Landing. 

10.50  Oral/Oral Poster presentations Session 4 General/part Menopause

(Oral Presentations: 7 + 3 minutes each) 

10.50  O15  OESTROGEN, EPIGENETICS AND RECURRENT UTIS IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: LINKING VAGINAL DNA METHYLATION TO CLINICAL INFECTION RISK

P. H. Krishnaswamy, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trusts

11.00  O16  PATTERNS OF PESSARY USE AND REMOVAL AMONG SELF-MANAGING WOMEN: INSIGHTS FROM THE TOPSY TRIAL

L. Dwyer, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

11.10  O17  A QUALITATIVE STUDY TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURE FOR SURGERY FOR PROLAPSE, INCONTINENCE, AND MESH COMPLICATIONS

F. Taylor-Phillips, Leeds Beckett University

11.20  O18  LONG TERM OUTCOMES FOLLOWING COLPOCLEISIS - AN EVALUATION OF REGRET, BLADDER, VAGINAL AND BOWEL SYMPTOMS AS A MULTI-CENTRE STUDY

A. Rahman, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

11.30  O19  CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF WOMEN UNDERGOING PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE SURGERY: A 10-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS

I.Banerjee, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Oral Posters: 2 + 3 minutes each

11.40  OP11  PERIOPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS TO FACILITATE DAY-CASE VAGINAL SURGERY FOR PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

T. J. Curtis, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

11.45  OP12  UNFORTUNATE SERIOUS COMPLICATION FROM GELHORN PESSARY LEADING TO DEATH OF PATIENT

J. Roper, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport

11.50  OP13  REDEFINING SURGICAL SUCCESS: WHAT MATTERS TO WOMEN UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR POP, SUI AND MESH COMPLICATIONS

G. L. Jones, Leeds Beckett University

11.55  OP14  WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS AND GOALS OF YOUNGER WOMEN WITH PROLAPSE? EVIDENCE FROM EPAQ-PELVIC FLOOR FREE-TEXT DATA AND QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS

G. Forshall, Leeds Beckett University

12.00  OP15  BEYOND MECHANICAL FAILURE: A BIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING MESH-RELATED PAIN

S. Quek, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

12.05  OP16  CONCERNS AND GOALS OF WOMEN WITH ISOLATED MESH ASSOCIATED PAIN SYNDROME (I-MAPS) ACCESSING A QUATERNARY MESH REFERRAL SERVICE: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS

H. Badri, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

12.10  OP17  PHENOTYPING OF ISOLATED MESH ASSOCIATED PAIN SYNDROME (I-MAPS) SECONDARY TO CONTINENCE MESH DEVICE INSERTION

H. Badri, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

12.15  OP18  A SERVICE EVALUATION OF THE PSYCHOSEXUAL THERAPY FOR MESH-INJURED WOMEN

L. Brocklehurst, The Warrell Unit, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester

Discussion time

12.30 - 13.30   Lunch Break: Exhibition in French Ballroom and Landing Break: Posters in Forster Suite.

Session 4 Elderly

Chair: Amy Illsley, Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest In Continence, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

13.35  Creating and Evaluating the Combined Elderly Continence Clinic.

Victoria Brown, Urogynaecology Consultant and Amy Illsley, Consultant Geriatrician, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  

14.00  Continence in Older People: when to call the Geriatrician.

Natalia Gunaratna, Consultant Geriatrician, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

14.25  Calculating Anticholinergic Burden for the Non Specialist: developing an electronic calculator.

Matthew Knight, Research Fellow, Bradford Institute of Health Research

14.50  Polypharmacy and Continence Prescribing.

Ifrah Bi, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

15.15 Oral Abstract and Oral Poster: 

Session 5:   General and Elderly Themed

Oral Presentations: 7 + 3 minutes each

15.15 O20  CASE SERIES: WEARABLE BLADDER SENSOR FOR DAYTIME INCONTINENCE IN ADULTS

F. van den Bosch, Novioscan B.V. (an Essity entity), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

15.25  O21  ANTIMUSCARINIC BURDEN IN ADULTS OVER 60 ATTENDING CONTINENCE SERVICES: A SERVICE EVALUATION

E. Doxford-Hook, University of Leeds

Oral Poster: 2 + 3 minutes

15.35  OP19  A UK SURVEY OF CARER PERSPECTIVES ON CONTINENCE PROBLEMS IN HOME-BASED DEMENTIA CARE

M. Avery, University of Southampton

15.40 UKCS ASM Launch 2027 

 Seonaid Bradford , Physiotherapist, Glasgow

15.50 UKCS Abstract Prizes

16.00 Closing Remarks

Ms Carmel Ramage, Consultant Urogynaecologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust