Our Aims

Any serious illness will disrupt a person's normal life-style, especially if it has lasted many years and has led to major surgery resulting in a change of body function and body image.

As a local branch of IA, West Riding of Yorkshire IA aims to help support people in their time of need by offering first hand support from people who have been through similar experiences.

West Riding of Yorkshire IA aims to:

• help anyone who has had, or is about to have, their colon removed to return to a fully active and normal life as soon as possible.
  
  
• help those individuals with all aspects of their rehabilitation including social activities, relationships with their families, friends, employers, colleagues and members of the general public.
  
  
• work in close co-operation with the medical authorities as part of a team whose primary aim is the complete rehabilitation of every ileostomy or pouch patient.
  
  
• promote and co-ordinate research, not only into ways of improving the quality of life with an ileostomy or pouch, but also into the illnesses which lead to these operations.
  
  
• improve knowledge about the management of ileostomies or pouches and encourage development of new ostomy equipment and skin care preparations.