We can help with any of the following:
- Information and advice
- Health needs assessments
- Emotional and psychological support
- Symptom management
- Bowel management
- Advice re support groups and counselling
- Pre-operative counselling
- Stoma reviews
We offer a Monday to Friday service 8am to 6pm.
We encourage patients to leave a message if they have any query relating to their disease and treatment or management or if they need a stoma review.
The team can be contacted on 01253 956620.
- Bleeding persistently from stoma
- New swelling of the stoma
- Ulceration on stoma
- Change in stoma colour from usual
- Prolapse – increased length of stoma
- Trauma / injury to stoma
- Continuous diarrhoea for more than three days (colostomy)
- Change from usual bowel function pattern (colostomy)
- No output for 4-6 hours together with abdominal pain / nausea (ileostomy)
- Liquid output and increased volume of more than 1000mls in 24 hours (ileostomy)
- Blood in urine or no urine (urostomy)
- Very dry or wet skin which stops bag sticking
- Scaly, irritated itchy skin or rashes
- Weeping, smelly discharge or pus from skin
- Lumps or bumps or bleeding from the skin
- Ulceration on the skin
- Pain or discomfort to the skin
- New bulge or lump around the stoma (hernia)
- Appliance not sticking to the skin properly
Also if you:
- Are new to the area
- Are admitted to hospital with a stoma-related problem
- Have a change of stoma prescription needs
- Are unable to care independently for stoma
- Need advice on stoma management / function
- Need advice around long term / existing skin problems
- Have change in colour of urine (urostomy)
Community nurse-led stoma clinics for Fylde and Wyre patients:
| Lytham Primary Care Centre,Victoria Street, Lytham St Annes FY8 5DZ | Every Monday from 9am to 4.30pm |
| Fleetwood Health and Wellbeing Centre, Dock Street, Fleetwood FY7 6HP | Tuesday from 9am to 4.30pm |
| Blackpool Victoria Hospital,Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool FY3 8NR | Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 4pm |
Phoenix Bowel Cancer Support Group
www.
01772 683790
Fylde and Wyre Patients =Your Move
www.
01253 882105
Blackpool Patients = ACTIVE Blackpool
Speak to your GP or healthcare professional for referral into this activity programme
Ileostomy Association
www.iasupport.org
0800 018 4724
Colostomy Association
www.colostomyassociation.org.uk
0800 3284257
cass
Urostomy Association
www.
01889 563191
secretary
Macmillan.org.uk
0808 808 0000
Beating Bowel Cancer
www.beatingbowelcancer.org
020 89730011
Crohn’s and Colitis UK
www.crohnsandcolitis.org.uk
0121 737 9931
Kangaroo Club (Stoma Support Group)
01253 956620
