A-Z of Services

Urogynaecology

  • Service Contact: ch-tr.obsgynaequeries@nhs.net
  • Address: Purple Zone,  Croham Building,  1st Floor Croydon University Hospital 530 London Road, Croydon, CR7 7YE
  • Reception phone number: 020 8401 3983

COPD Admission avoidance

Croydon integrated continence service comprises of a multidisciplinary team of Consultants, Doctors, Nurse Consultant, Specialist Nurses and Administrative staff. We offer comprehensive service for individuals with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

The Orchid Suite provides a nurse led service for adults with bladder and/or bowel dysfunction. Referrals are triaged and patients are seen in the appropriate clinic by the right professional, at the right time and in the right place. Outpatient clinics are available at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital. 

As part of the integrated continence service there is also a community continence service based at Parkway Health Centre in New Addington and comprises of a Nurse Consultant in bladder and bowel dysfunction, Wendy Naish and a Specialist Continence Nurse. Home visits and community clinics are offered by this service.

Clinics include:

  • Conservative treatment for overactive bladder and incontinence
  • Management of voiding problems
  • Recurrent urinary tract infections
  • Constipation
  • Obstructed defaecation
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Faecal incontinence
  • Trial without catheter (TWOC) clinic.
  • Joint Pelvic Floor clinic for females with bladder and Bowel dysfunction

Referral criteria

Patients need to be mobile or can transfer unaided from their wheelchair to attend any of the clinics in The Orchid Suite. For patients that are housebound, have poor mobility, cannot transfer from a wheelchair unaided or require hoisting are seen by the continence team in the community.

Referral guidelines

We provide a nurse-led continence service for adults with bladder and/or bowel dysfunction. Continence services are provided from the Orchid Suite which is based in Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

Referrals to the Orchid Suite.

Patients with bladder and/or bowel dysfunction problems such as urinary incontinence, voiding problems recurrent urine infections, TWOC, constipation or faecal incontinence, can be referred to our nurse-led service for further assessment via the following.

All Consultant-led clinics are now on eRS.

List of Specialties on eRS

Advice and Guidance

Contact details

Email: ch-tr.obsgynaequeries@nhs.net 

The Orchid Suite, Croydon University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon, CR7 7YE. Tel: 020 8401 3969

Community Continence Service, Park Way Health Centre, Parkway, New Addington, Croydon CR0 0JA. Tel: 020 8714 2950

How to refer

All GP referrals should be made via eRS. Please see this link for a full description and referral information.

Refer via e-Referrals. More information about e-Referrals is available here.

Additional support

The Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Unit provides a service for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction (bladder and bowel problems and/or prolapse). To ensure optimal and streamlined management we have a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to female pelvic floor dysfunction.

Treatment for bladder and bowel dysfunction includes: conservative treatment for overactive bladder and incontinence, surgical options for urinary incontinence, management of voiding problems and  recurrent urinary tract infections, constipation,obstructed defaecation and faecal incontinence. The team has special expertise in the treatment of genital prolapse and childbirth related perineal injuries and pelvic floor problems. 

The team consists of two Consultant Urogynaecologists, a colorectal nurse specialist and three nurse specialists in bladder dysfunction. The trust has developed a purpose-built continence department (The Lancaster Suite) for continence services within Croydon. 

In recognition of the excellent service provided the team won the 2005 UK Hospital Doctor of the Year Award for Continence Care.

Educational courses include 3rd and 4th degree tear and pelvic ultrasound courses for doctors, episiotomy and perineal tear courses for midwives and courses for nurses in male catheterisation, digital rectal examination and constipation, faecal incontinence and diarrhoea including clostridium difficile.The unit has a recognised urgynaecology subspeciality training programme and has a strong active research and audit programme

Our Continence Department is moving and has changed its name

The department has changed its name from The Lancaster Suite to The Orchid Suite

From 18th December 2017, it is moving to the Purple Zone, Croham Building, 1stFloor, Croydon University Hospital.

Contact details will remain the same.

Clinic information

Gynaecology Outpatient Clinics in Croydon University Hospital  – Consultant Led Clinic

Lancaster Suite (Now called The Orchid Suite) – Nurse Led Clinics

Queens 2 – Postoperative care

Contact Us

Please call 020 8401 3983 or email ch-tr.obsgynaequeries@nhs.net 

Clinicians

Contact Us
Please call 020 8401 3983 or email CH-TR.obsgynaequeries@nhs.net

Miss Bini Ajay
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Miss Maha Alkatib
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Miss Heather Allen-Coward
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Miss Rosol Hamid
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Mr Laxmikant Ganjewar     
Consultant

Dr Kannappar Jeyanthan
Locum Consultant

Mr Ahmed Kamel
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Mr Fayez Naguib
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Mr Vivek Nama
Consultant Gynaecologist

Mr Emmanuel Ofuasia
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Mr David Rose
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Mr Abdul Sultan
Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist

Miss Ranee Thakar
Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist

Mr Gregory Ward
Consultant

Miss Nalini Sajitha    
Trust Specialty Registrar

Miss Samar Shoeir        
Trust Specialist Registrar