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Useful links

We’ve tried to be as comprehensive in our information as possible but there are many different aspects to continence care.

Here we have gathered together some additional sources of information and organisations you may find useful to consult.  if you have come across others you have found useful, please contact us with the details and why it was helpful and we’ll add it to the list below to share with other professionals involved in continence care.

 

Useful links

  • Association for Continence Advice

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The Association for Continence Advice (ACA) have the following objectives

  • Represent the interests of our multi-professional membership by communicating effectively, for example, through its newsletter and website.
  • Lead educational activity and support research development within the organisation.
  • Initiate projects and engage with internal or external groups, organisations or companies; and likewise, contribute to projects that aim to maximize evidence-based continence care.
  • Influence UK wide clinical, professional and political developments in the field of continence care policy.
  • Promote safe, high quality continence services that reflect UK wide policy developments.

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The Nursing Times is an on-line journal aimed at nursing professionals.  Within the site there is a dedicated 'Continence Specialist' section.


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PromoCon provides a national service, working as part of Disabled Living, Manchester to improve the life for all people with bladder or bowel problems by offering product information, advice and practical solutions to both professionals and the general public.

PromoCon employs a multidisciplinary team of people who work with other services and organizations to develop improvements for people who have continence difficulties.

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The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.

To deliver our mission we aim to:

Represent
the interests of nurses and nursing and be their voice locally, nationally and internationally.
Influence
and lobby governments and others to develop and implement policy that improves the quality of patient care, and builds on the importance of nurses, health care assistants and nursing students to health outcomes.
Support and protect
the value of nurses and nursing staff in all their diversity
their terms and conditions of employment in all employment sectors
the interests of nurses professionally.
Develop
and educate nurses professionally and academically, building our resource of professional expertise and leadership
the science and art of nursing and its professional practice.
Build
a sustainable, member led, organisation with the capacity to deliver our mission effectively, efficiently and in accordance with our values
the systems, attitudes and resources to offer the best possible support and development to our staff.

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