National Urotherapy Committee
PURPOSE In our country a group of urotherapists is active: ‘The National Urotherapy Committee’. Their objectives are creating a network of urotherapists, which can exchange knowledge and experience relating to urotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The committee works on its own initiative. The chairman plans the meetings and agenda in consultation with the members. Mostly two meetings per year. The group consists of delegates from hospitals all over the country. Participants are nurses, psychological therapists and physiotherapists who give urotherapy in children. RESULTS The committee was set up in 1997. At this moment we have 16 delegates. 14 nurses, 1 psychological therapist and 1 physiotherapist. Most of our meetings are in the middle of the country. Once a year we invite a specialist for education (e.g. pediatric urologist, psychologist). Further we discuss complex cases from participants, patient educational material, new continence material, bedwetting alarms and medicine for overactive bladder or enuresis nocturna. During the year we can contact our network by email. Every year new urotherapists are willing to become participant of the committee. For an efficient meeting we decided that the group shouldn't be too extensive. During the years we grow from 12 to 16 delegates. CONCLUSIONS There is a growing interest for urotherapy. Urotherapists can follow a special course. But nevertheless there is still a need for further specific education, sharing experience, new insights, incontinence materials/ bedwetting alarms and medication. The participants who aren't able to go to congresses and from them who work as an individual, they especially feel the need for these meetings.