Useful Links
Organisations and websites, UK and international
The following external links are provided for your convenience and as an aid to research. Remember, if you are concerned about your health or the health of someone you know, talk to a healthcare professional.
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Health services
- NICE — National Insititute of Health and Clinical Excellence
- Best Treatments Clinical Evidence for Patients from the BMJ: Digestive diseases
- NHS DIRECT Health Encyclopedia
- NHS Find Local NHS services (England)
- NHS Direct Wales
- NHS Scotland
- NHS Northern Ireland
- Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS)
- Department of Health
- Scottish Medicines
Patient associations and public health information
Gastrointestinal information websites UK
- Digestive Disorders Foundation: Core
- Incontact and Downloadable booklets (PDFs)
- Continence Foundation Homepage
- Bowel Information
- What childbirth does to the pelvic floor
- The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy /What is incontinence
- St Mark’s Hospital: Patient Leaflets
- Burdett Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing: Patient information
Children
- ERIC: Enuresis Resource and Information Centre
- Trusteric.org - continence information for young people Royal College of Pyschiatrists/Children who soil or wet themselves
- Best treatments from the BMJ: Bedwetting
- Children who soil or wet themselves/Royal College of Psychiatrists
Other associations
- Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- Parkinson’s Disease Society
- European Parkinson’s Disease Association
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Alzheimer’s Research Trust
- Age Concern
- Help the Aged
- Cancer Backup
- Brain and Spine Foundation
- The Stroke Association
- International Alliance of Patient Organizations
Healthcare professional organisations
- Association for Continence Advice
- Association of Coloproctologists of Great Britain and Ireland
- British Dietetic Association
- British Nutrition Foundation
- British Geriatrics Society
- British Society of Gastroenterology
- Continence Worldwide
- General Medical Council
- International Continence Society
- NHS Direct
- Physiotherapist and specialist physiotherapist/Incontinence page
- Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology
- Royal College of General Practioners
- Royal College of Nurses
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Royal College of Physicians
- Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) International
Specific gastrointestinal disorder websites
- IBS Network
- National Assocation for Crohns and Colitis
- Colostomy Association
- International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (USA)
Bowel Cancer
Bladder Incontinence and Interstitial cystitis
- International Painful Bladder Foundation
- The Cystitis and Overactive Bladder Foundation
- Continence Foundation Homepage
- Incontact
- Patient UK
Media and general Links
BBC
- BBC Science: Human Body: Large intestine
- BBC NI: Faecal Incontinence
- BBC Northern Ireland. Mind Yourself. Men’s Health
- BBC Radio 4. Gut Reactions (Audio)
- BBC Health: Incontinent at a young age
- Health over 50: Incontinence
Wikipedia
Australia
USA
- National Institutes of Health. Health Information Homepage
- National Institutes of Health. Health Information Digestive system
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Homepage
- WEB MD. Digestive Disorders: Bowel Incontinence
- International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (USA)
- IFFGD’s “About IBS” website
- IFFGD’s “About Incontinence” website
- IFFGD’s “About Constipation” website
- IFFGD Real World Survey/IBS 2002
- National Association For Continence
- Shands Surgeries and Procedures and Encyclopedia
- American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons ASCRS
- American College of Gastroenterology/Fecal Incontinence page
Product specific
Other useful links
- British National Formulary Requires registration
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