Purple Wings: supporting ostomates and promoting ostomy awareness
- Thursday, October 1, 2020
Lauren Henderson recalls how the Purple Wings charity began helping people with a stoma regain confidence and self-esteem
Gut Together
Providing services and support for people with a stoma, submitted by companies, charities and support groups
No More Secrets: revealing India’s ostomates
- Thursday, October 1, 2020
Luciana Podschun interviews filmmaker Anisha Vijayan about what inspired No More Secrets, her film about life with a stoma in India
Urostomy Association: 50 years strong in 2021
- Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Hazel Pixley celebrates nearly five decades of the Urostomy Association providing support for people with a urinary stoma
Coronavirus: stoma care in a global pandemic
- Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Stoma nurse Janaína Maria Felix, patient advocate Steve Cartmail and support group secretary David Bunger discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their lives
The Kingston Trust
- Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Carolyn Stammers explains how people with an ileostomy or ileo‑anal pouch aged 16 and above can apply for financial support from the Kingston Trust CIO
Editorial: Tut tut, Butlins
- Thursday, September 12, 2019
Man with a stoma barred from enjoying the attractions at a popular holiday resort with his ostomy pouch on show
The Bowel Cancer Recovery Toolkit: an extract
- Thursday, September 12, 2019
Sarah Russell presents the introduction to her new book on how to recover faster with activity, exercise and lifestyle
Stomas nicknames: to name or not to name
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Stoma care nurses Jane Cook and Jackie Hatton discuss the results of their survey on the names that people give to their stomas
A stoma speaks
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Tomas the Stoma has composed a few lines on what it is like to live with Clare Mee
Editorial: friend of the pod
- Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Benjamin Wakefield discusses podcasts in his introduction to the third issue of Stoma Tips
The guts to perform
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
Liz Richardson speaks about her one-woman play Gutted, a shameless tale of love, laughter and lavatories, co-created with director Tara Robinson
Editorial: getting out there
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
John Walsh introduces the second issue of Stoma Tips
MASIC: helping mums keep it together
- Sunday, September 30, 2018
Yvette Perston introduces a charity helping mothers with weakened core muscles, sore skin and body image issues related to faecal incontinence due to childbirth