Empowering Stoma Care Nurses: A day of knowledge, connection, and wellbeing

Creating value and building connections with Stoma Care Nurses

At CliniMed and SecuriCare, two of our core principles are to create value by transforming (and transferring) knowledge to deliver outstanding healthcare experiences, and our belief that everyone counts. We believe in recognising the value of every person, building connections, and fostering inclusivity, and nowhere was this more evident than at our recent Wellbeing Day for Stoma Care Nurses.

The team invited Stoma Care Nurses to spend a day with us in Crawley at Welland Medical, our Welland pouches manufacturer and part of the CliniMed Group.

The day was focused around building knowledge, seeing how products are manufactured and what makes Welland pouches so unique. We also supported working on Stoma Care Nurses’ own wellbeing in a workshop on compassion fatigue and later by getting hands-on with our Breathing and Movements programme, to promote wellbeing for their patients.

Introducing our Breathing and Movement guide for ostomates

The morning began with participation in our Breathing and Movement programme. Led by Andy Hansen, who co-authored the guide with SecuriCare. Andy is a qualified Pilates instructor and has a urostomy, so there was nobody better to get our guests active!


The guide has been designed for people of all ages and abilities to help reduce the risk of developing a parastomal hernia, and to maintain core fitness. We’re proud of the programme that Andy has developed, and the guide has been well received by nurses and patients alike.

Some of the group practised the Part 1 – fundamentals from the guide with Andy.
Afterwards we split into groups, with one touring the Welland factory to see first-hand how our products, in particular Aura Plus soft convex stoma bags, are made here in the UK.

The rest of the group joined a research and development session, exploring patient needs and how they can influence the design of our products to improve them for everybody who uses them.
SecuriCare published an interview with Welland about the production process if you’re interested in finding out how stoma bags are made. Something they don’t describe in much detail is how many controls are in place during the process, from security to temperature to hygiene.

After lunch we worked on Stoma Care Nurses health, participating in a workshop on Emotional Wellbeing for nurses, particularly looking at Compassion Fatigue.
We had some great feedback from our attendees:

Don’t miss out on our future wellbeing days

Thanks to all of our guests who attended, the team at Welland for looking after us so well and our own teams from CliniMed and SecuriCare.
We’ll be hosting more events in the future to work closely with our customers and colleagues in the healthcare industry. If you want to ensure that you don’t miss out, make sure you follow us on Eventbrite and sign up to our monthly emails.