East Kent NHS Stoma Service

The service covers the whole of East Kent and includes caring for patients in our three acute hospitals, in patients homes and providing stoma clinics at our other hospital sites and in GP practices.

The aim of our service is to introduce ourselves to patients prior to surgery and to provide support, education and adequate pre-operative preparation together with continuity of care throughout your stay in hospital.

This service is for all ostomates of any age and and their carers. This includes...colostomists, ileostomists, urostomists as the main stoma types but also fistula management and internal ileo-anal pouch patients.

As a stoma nurse team we want to work very closely with you. A group of ostomates have previously given us extensive feedback and have had a huge input into what our service looks like today.