Intermittent Catheter Supplies: Confirm Your Repeat-Order Plan

If you already use prescribed intermittent catheters, record how you obtain replacements before the next order becomes a worry.

Make one supply record

• Prescribed catheter: Have your healthcare professional record the exact type, size and instructions. Gloucestershire’s leaflet provides separate spaces for daily-use and occasional-use catheters; use the details that apply to your plan.¹

• Prescription: Confirm who issues yours. The leaflet describes a GP or healthcare practitioner writing the prescription.¹

• Supplier: Record your pharmacy or delivery company and its contact details. Ask how your own ordering arrangement works.¹

• Supply problem: Ask whom to contact if you cannot obtain the prescribed supplies. Keep that answer beside your continence nurse’s details.¹

Check the record together

Try: “Is this the exact catheter on my prescription? Who handles my next order, and whom should I contact if there is a problem?”

Your healthcare professional selects the catheter details. Ask them to clarify any mismatch rather than choosing another type or size yourself.¹

Laugh, Sneeze, Jump includes an appointment prep sheet. Use it to keep your questions and the answers you receive together. See the book.