NHS England/Improvement Pelvic Floor Oversight GroupUpdate – Patient and Public Voice Partner’s (PPV) – Pelvic Floor Health Programme… pleased to announce that we have appointed the following patient representative to share her perspective and experience as well as champion women and families’ viewpoints and voices:
Jacq (Jacqueline) Emkes has extensive experience of accessing and receiving care relevant to the Pelvic Floor Health Programme and has been actively involved as a patient representative in urogynae and continence care since 2009. Jacq brings an abundance of experience in public and patient involvement and is currently a patient representative to the Excellence in Continence Care Programme Board and the National Bladder and Bowel Health Project as well as being a lay member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidance Committee for Women’s Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP). As an advocate for diverse patient groups, Jacq also represent patients with bladder and or bowel conditions at the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Bladder and Bowel Continence Care whose aims include to “Break the taboo” by raising awareness of bladder and bowel continence care for adults and children and to promote cost effective funding for assessment, treatment and appropriate product provision. She is Trustee Treasurer of Bladder HealthUK, advisor to the BABCON continence app, University of Southampton Continence Product Advisory, The ColleyProject – Continence Pathway and The Bladder Health Forum.

NIHR National Institute of Health Research. Inventions for Innovation i4i Jacqueline.Emkes has accepted the role of a public committee member on the i4i Product Development Awards Committee. On behalf of the Programme Director, Professor Mike Lewis and the Department of Health and Social Care.

NIHR National Institute of Health Research. I’m getting in touch to let you know that the NIHR Alert you recently commented on has now been published, and you can view it here: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/no-benefit-from-biofeedback-with-pelvic-floor-muscle-training/