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The Austrian Medical Society for Help with Incontinence has 303 members: 174 doctors, 70 registered nurses, 10 physiotherapists, 33 from other professions (e.g. pharmacists) and 16 incontinent people - who are also allowed to be members. In order to coordinate the activities of the society, the Board has met five times and the circle of supporters four times. In its two agencies, in Innsbruck (Headquarters) and in Vienna, all together 843 consultations for incontinence problems took place, 578 by phone, 205 by letters and 160 by personal counselling. Twenty-two seminars for doctors and nurses and 19 pelvic floor training courses for prophylaxis and treatment of incontinence were organized around Austria. The 7th Annual Meeting of our society took place in Klagenfurt on November 29 with 220 participants. |
The newsletter is sent out twice a year to inform our members about the society's activities and to update their knowledge about the management of incontinence by including references and articles of interest in regards to urinary and faecal incontinence. The first postgraduate course to train nurses to become Continence and Stoma Advisers finished in October 1996. It was a success and 15 registered nurses got their diplomas. A second course has started with 13 participants and will be finished by October this year.