We are a multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, and doctors.
We provide a comprehensive assessment for all patients with urogynaecological problems. We are skilled in vaginal, open, laparoscopic (keyhole) and robotic urogynaecological surgery.
When there is a particularly complex case we operate together as a team performing advanced procedures safely.
At Liverpool Women’s University Hospital, we provide specialist services for women with urogynaecological and pelvic floor problems.
We practise in an environment of clinical excellence meeting high standards of clinical governance with an active programme of clinical audit and research ensuring that we can continue to lead future developments within urogynaecology.
More information
These are nurse-led clinics for women with vaginal pessaries as a treatment for pelvic organ prolapse.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health at Aintree University Hospital.
The Urogynaecology Clinic sees women who are experiencing urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse or lower urinary tract disorders.
It offers a range of investigations and treatments for overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, interstitial cystitis, recurrent urinary tract infections, perineal trauma, and urinary voiding dysfunction.
You can be referred to this clinic from your GP, another hospital consultant or from other continence service providers.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health at Aintree University Hospital.
What will happen
- When we receive a referral for this clinic, we will send you an appointment letter with a date and time to attend the clinic. Depending on your condition, we may send you a bladder diary to complete and an instruction letter for you to complete an on-line questionnaire about your symptoms and quality of life, known as an ePAQ questionnaire.
- A consultation consists of a urine test, weight and height assessment, a full medical history and physical examination
- If you need to have urodynamic investigations, you will be given information before you leave about which tests are required and an appointment will be arranged for you
- You may also be referred from your initial consultation to the physiotherapy department. Physiotherapy provides assessment, information, education and rehabilitation for your pelvic floor muscles. You can be referred here for your bladder symptoms, prolapse symptoms and for symptoms of pain.
Urodynamics are investigations to demonstrate how your bladder is working. Urodynamics are diagnostic tests that can help to identify the cause of incontinence problems so that the best treatment can be offered to you.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health at Aintree University Hospital.
This Clinic is for patient’s having uroflowmetry and residual urine ultrasound to assess bladder emptying.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health.
This clinic is for women who have bladder problems during and after their pregnancy. A referral to this clinic is usually from your midwife or hospital consultant.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health at Aintree University Hospital.
This clinics is run by the urogynaecology specialist nurses. They see patients for bladder retraining, pelvic floor physiotherapy, clean intermittent self-catheterisation, bladder instillations and advice for interstitial cystitis and stoma care.
Location
These clinics are held at Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site and occasionally at the Aintree Centre for Women’s Health at Aintree University Hospital.
Women attending the Perineal Clinic do so because they have had a third or fourth degree tear or other chronic perineal problems incurred during childbirth. The clinic combines the expertise of urogynaecology consultants and a specialist urogynaecology midwife.
Location
These clinics are held every week in the Urodynamic Department, located on the ground floor of Liverpool Women’s University Hospital Crown Street site.
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Liverpool Women’s University Hospital
Address: Liverpool Women’s University Hospital
Crown Street
Liverpool
L8 7SS