Links

Support Groups
 
The Colostomy Association
Links PO Box 8017
Reading
RG6 9DE
Tel: 0800 587 6744
www.colostomyassociation.org.uk
 
Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group ( IA )
Peverill House
1-5 Mill Road
Ballyclare
Co. Antrim
BT39 9DR
Tel: 0800 018 4724
www.the-ia.org.uk

Inside Out Stoma Support Group
218 Long Elmes,
Harrow Weald,
Middlesex
HA3 6LG
Tel: 020 8428 4242
 
NASPCS (The National Advisory Service for Parents of Children with a Stoma)
Mr John B Malcolm
National Organiser
51 Anderson Drive
Valley View Park
Darvel
Ayrshire
Tel: 01560 322024
www.naspcs.co.uk
 
RADAR - Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
You can get a RADAR key to open any disabled toilet in the country.
12 City Forum
250 City Road
London
WC1V 8AF
Tel: 020 7250 3222
www.radar.org.uk

The Urostomy Association
Central Office,
18 Foxglove Ave.
Uttoxeter, Staffs.
ST14 8UN
Tel: 0870 7707931
www.uagbi.org
 
Ostomy Lifestyle
4 The Courtyard
Eastern Road
Bracknell
RG12 2XB
Freephone 0800 731 4264
Website www.ostomylifestyle.org


National Association for Crohns and Colitis
( NACC )
98A London Road
St Albans
Herts.
AL1 1NX
Tel: 01727 844 296
www.nacc.org.uk

BACUP
3 Bath Place
Rivington Street
London
EC2A 3JR
Tel: 0808 800 1234
www.cancerbacup.org.uk
 
Beating Bowel Cancer
www.beatingbowelcancer.org
 
British Digestive Foundation
www.digestivedisorders.org.uk
 

CancerHelp UK

Organizations:
 

United Ostomy Association, Inc.
http://www.uoa.org

International Ostomy Association, Inc.
http://www.ostomyinternational.org

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses' Society.
http://www.wocn.org

WCET - World Council of Enterostomal Therapists.
http://www.wcetn.org/

European Association of Coloproctology.
http://www.eacp.org

Clinical Database & Dictionary:
Click below for FREE access to the MEDLINE PLUS clinical site that offers a medical dictionary and other valuable tools such as Medline facilities.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Multi-lingual Clinical Dictionary:
Click below for FREE access to a clinical translator, containing approximately 2000 clinical words in eight European languages!
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/language.html

Ostomate experiences:
Click below to access web sites for ostomates and future ostomates.
Coping With a Chronic Illness, Crohn's Disease by Linda Darner.
http://www.geocities.com/windsong14470/crohn.html
 
Other links:

World Ostomy Resource.
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~takkenb/OstomySites.htm


International Ostomy Association
www.ostomyinternational.org

 
Other links

http://www.ostomysupport.info/index.html

The interactive lifestyle colostomy website providing information and support and an interactive chatroom http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=107&sectionId=8282

Information on colostomy formation and care.