A review of prescribing practice for continence related products revealed shortcomings in the service that patients were receiving. This led to it being radically redesigned, with the continence service being responsible for prescriptions. The new service model also includes telephone triage before prescriptions are issued. Patient feedback on the new model has been extremely positive. This project won the 2009 Nursing Times continence award.

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