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Welcome and thank you! - a message from your Chair and Committee Secretary | |
We wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone for engaging with IBD at BSG LIVE‘25. There was record attendance and six packed IBD sessions plus the IBD content in the CSSC session with the launch of the guidelines on IBD in adults and the guidelines on colorectal surveillance in IBD.
Many congratulations to Professors Gordon Moran, Morris Gordon and James East for their innovation, dedication and enthusiasm in leading the Guidelines. This was a huge endeavour with over 100 colleagues and patients working together to modernise guideline development. We are hugely indebted to everyone who participated in this mammoth effort to bring the guidelines to fruition. The Delphi voting sessions were successful because of all the enthusiastic vigorous debates - again this would not have been possible without your involvement. A huge congratulations to everyone.
Watch this space for the upcoming IBD guidelines interview video filmed at BSG LIVE'25 in a fireside chat format. In case you missed it, last year's BSG LIVE'24 interview video focusing on optimising the monitoring strategies in IBD is out now.
Even late on Thursday there were 200-300 people listening to a fascinating session on Microscopic colitis, Checkpoint induced -colitis and acute severe ulcerative colitis which was amazing to see! What was particularly lovely to see was the sense of camaraderie and friendship across the wider UK IBD team with trainees (with amazing posters and oral presentations), Consultants, IBD nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, scientists and surgeons all coming together as speakers or audience. What a wonderful team we have! For us, that unity highlights the potential skills, knowledge and determination we can harness to achieve amazing work in improving the care of patients with IBD in the UK both from a clinical and research perspective.
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Shahida Din Committee Chair | | Gareth Parkes Committee Secretary | | | |
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This annual Course is a 1-day event, taking place prior to the ECCO Congress and an excellent educational opportunity. The course offers an excellent opportunity for young clinicians and researchers to meet colleagues from many European countries with different standards of medicine and establish a network for future collaboration.
It was initiated in 2003 with the aim of providing advanced fellows and junior faculty in gastroenterology with a multidisciplinary broad base of knowledge in IBD. Participation is by invitation only by Member Societies. The BSG may send three nominees.
To be considered, you need to be a BSG member in good standing and in a UK Training Programme.
Nominations are now open and must be received by the BSG before the deadline of midnight on 27th July 2025. You will also need to upload your CV and a 500-word statement of intent. The outcome of applications will be advised in early September 2025.
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ECCO supported Research Study Proposals
On behalf of the ECCO Clinical Research Committee (ClinCom), please find enclosed details of ECCO supported Research Study Proposals. On the dedicated ECCO Webpage, as well as by following this link to the Cloudbox, you will be able to find: - summaries of the protocols
- invitation letters
- all the presentations (only available via link)
The deadline to participate is 15th September 2025.
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New PSP in Endoscopy Research | |
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We are supporting a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in Endoscopy to identify the top 10 future research priorities. This partnership is also supported by Guts UK and Crohn’s & Colitis UK. The partnership has developed a short survey which they are inviting healthcare professionals, patients, carers and family members who have experience of endoscopy to complete. This survey covers upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy/gastroscopy, endoscopy of the pancreas and liver, colonoscopy and capsule endoscopy.
To make a difference in the future of endoscopy research, please complete the survey which will take less than 5 minutes.
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Immunology in IBD Thank you to everyone who attended the latest IBD webinar, “Immunology in IBD”. If you couldn’t make it on the night, you can catch the recording here: BSG Immunology Webinar
Save the date! Joint IBD Monothematic and Investigators Day Event A joint, two-day IBD section/research event on 19/20 January 2026 will cover clinical updates, as well as the usual research day. Save the date now and join us in Birmingham! | |
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The BSG endorse good quality fellowships across the UK. Apply here to boost your hospital’s IBD fellowship with a BSG Endorsement and a feature on our website. Candidates can search here for available endorsed IBD fellowships. | |
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Despite significant advances in medical and surgical aspects of IBD care, the quality of IBD provision in the UK remains poor. Patients’ surveys and self-reported service parameters have been the cornerstone of the IBD UK benchmarking efforts with seminal reports in 2021 and 2024.
The BSG IBD Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were agreed upon in a delphi process involving key stakeholders and were published in 2023. The BSG IBD committee believe that the BSG IBD KPIs complement guidelines, standards and surveys.
We are delighted that a BSG-funded project will aim to demonstrate that the BSG IBD KPIs are implementable and a useful tool to facilitate quality improvement involving 10-12 IBD sites collecting BSG IBD KPIs with expert QI facilitator-led sessions focusing on implementation of data collection and points learned for service design improvement. Further updates will be made available as the project progresses.
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Individual Research Initiatives | |
Early Bowel Resection for terminal Ileal Crohn’s disease (E-BRIC)
The aim is to understand how healthcare professionals might weigh up selected factors and pros and cons of treatment when choosing between medical therapy (anti-TNF therapy) and an operation for patients with Crohn’s disease affecting the terminal ileum or ileocaecum in isolation. | | | |
This questionnaire is open to any gastro/colorectal consultant with any IBD experience, IBD nurses and post-CCT fellows in gastroenterology/colorectal surgery. It takes between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. | |
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Transgender Patients with IBD This survey investigates healthcare provider confidence with regards to managing patients with minority gender identities and IBD. Please help us understand how we can provide better care for everyone. | |
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Lancet Global Commision on IBD IBD is now a global disease with global challenges and opportunities. Prof Shaji Sebastian (Hull) and Dr Gillian Watermeyer (Cape Town) are leading a Lancet Global Commision on IBD. This brings together commissioners who are IBD leaders from across the world to create a Lancet commission document to influence research, funding and policy to develop global approaches to IBD and reduce health inequalities globally . They have a global preparedness survey to support this work to assess the challenges, resource gaps and strategies for IBD care worldwide. The global survey is intended for all healthcare professionals (Gastroenterologists, IBD and stoma nurses, Dieticians, surgeons etc) who manage patients with IBD. Please can UK IBD colleagues complete the survey here so that we can contribute to the global IBD challenges.
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IBD-TAPAS (IBD Therapy Access Pathways and Selection) We believe that IBD patients should have equal access to advanced therapy, independent from where they live. To achieve this, we need to understand the current access that clinicians have to advanced therapies, processes for obtaining medications for their patients and approvals in place. Please complete this survey which will help us identify inequity between regions.
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Update on the Lower GI Pathway Pilot | |
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These offer the opportunity to look at a large number of urban GP practices in Scotland, versus a rural GP practice in Northern Ireland. The two project teams will meet together at the start, middle and end of the pilots to share learnings. The pilots will be commencing in autumn 2025 and will run for twelve months.
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