Formerly the Gut Trust, the IBS Network’s mission is to inform, support and advise patients and to work with health care professionals to facilitate IBS self management.  The IBS Network publishes a unique IBS self care plan,  where people can access comprehensive information on diagnosis, causes, diet, stress, medicines, therapies as well as on their specific symptoms.  It also publishes a quarterly magazine and a monthly newsletter, runs a telephone helpline and a personal email response service staffed by health care professionals, supports campaigns and research and issues can’t wait cards to access toilet facilities in offices and stores.