NHS Evidence: Annual Evidence Update on Alcoholic Liver Disease
NHS Evidence: Annual Evidence Update on Alcoholic Liver Disease NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases publised its first Evidence Update on alcoholic liver diseases on 7th December 2009....
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A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life Report of a joint RCP/BSG Working Party - January 2010 Please view the report and latest information on the RCP website: Oral Feeding...
View ArticleEarly detection of complications of gastrostomy
An NPSA Rapid Response Report At the beginning of April the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) issued a Rapid Response Report to the NHS on complications after gastronomy. The chair of the BSG Small...
View ArticleSurvey of Hepatology Service Provision 2010
In 2004 Professor Roger Williams identified 34 centres in England and Wales as offering specialist hepatology services, including 6 liver transplant centres. This March 2010 report is based on a follow...
View ArticleA Note on Clinical Coding – On Behalf of the BSG IPC
Members in private practice will be aware of the need to accurately assign procedure codes when they submit invoices for payment to private medical insurers in the UK. These codes were originally...
View ArticleBSG Response to 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS' - The White Paper
The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) welcomes the emphasis in the White Paper given to clinical outcomes, the ambition to improve the quality of services, the emphasis placed on clinically-led...
View ArticleNew guidance to stop people dying from acute gastric bleeding
The CROMES Project: 'Scope for Improvement: A toolkit for a safer Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (UGIB) service' A BSG led UK-wide audit in 2007 highlighted significant deficiencies and...
View ArticleNPSA Safety Alert: Reducing the harm caused by misplaced nasogastric feeding...
This Alert updates and strengthens Patient Safety Alert 05 (Reducing the harm caused by misplaced nasogastric feeding tubes) and is based on national learning since then. The Alert must be actioned by...
View ArticleMany hospitals not reaching national standards for treating IBD despite...
Care for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) has improved since 2008, according to the third UK IBD Audit, but many hospitals are still not reaching the National IBD Service Standards,...
View ArticleCommissioning report
The commissioning guidance has been produced in partnership with professional and patient associations – BAPEN, BASL, the IBS Network, Crohn’s & Colitis UK, Coeliac UK, British Liver Trust and the...
View ArticleGenomics in mainstream medicine
Genomics in mainstream medicine: an initiative to raise awareness and promote genomics amongst physicians in the UK Recent developments in genomics (such as the 100,000 genomes project) have underlined...
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Four Nations Committee: 2016 NamePosition Dr P Allen Chair & Representative for Northern Ireland Dr E Mackle USG President Prof M Lombard BSG President Dr I Penman CSSC rep Scotland Dr C Edwards...
View ArticleRCP Guidelines Database
Royal College of Physicians Guidelines Database The Royal College of Physicians has developed comprehensive resource for identifying widely accepted clinical guidelines and it is hoped that members of...
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Clinical Services & Standards Committee Name Position Year/Org Dr SM Greenfield Chairman Professor DC Gleeson Deputy Chairman Dr TCK Tham Secretary Dr IC Forgacs President Professor M...
View ArticleIBD Standards
Service standards for the healthcare of people who have Inflammatory Bowel Disease Documentation updated October 2013 The aim of these Service Standards is to ensure that patients who have inflammatory...
View ArticleNew Resources Available to Promote Medical Leadership
Led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement the UK-wide project, 'Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership project' has now developed a number of...
View ArticleNHS Evidence: Annual Evidence Update on Alcoholic Liver Disease
NHS Evidence: Annual Evidence Update on Alcoholic Liver Disease NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases publised its first Evidence Update on alcoholic liver diseases on 7th December 2009....
View ArticleOral Feeding Difficulties and Dilemmas
A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life Report of a joint RCP/BSG Working Party - January 2010 Please view the report and latest information on the RCP website: Oral Feeding...
View ArticleCommissioning report
The commissioning guidance has been produced in partnership with professional and patient associations – BAPEN, BASL, the IBS Network, Crohn’s & Colitis UK, Coeliac UK, British Liver Trust and the...
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