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NHS Pressures: Cancellations of elective surgery and outpatients appointments

Statement on behalf of the ACPGBI IBD/CAG subcommitteeMost patients with inflammatory bowel disease who require surgery will either undergo the procedure as an emergency or as a scheduled elective procedure.  For the latter there is undoubtedly a... Read more

10 Jan 2018

MediX: A new development for Surgeons

We surgeons tend to be asset rich but time poor.The majority of us buy our day to day household and general insurance policies on an individual basis and thus fail to take advantage of the considerable buying power inherent in the fact that there... Read more

21 Dec 2017

The Confederation of British Surgery

On November the 8th 2017, the Certification Office approved the application to add the “Confederation of British Surgery” (CBS) to the UK’s list of recognised trade unions. For the first time there will be an organisation, a trade union, recognised... Read more

21 Dec 2017

NASBO Launch meeting

The NASBO report was launched at the University of Birmingham on the 1st December 2017, and 50 collaborators from the across the country attended. The report had been prepared based upon 2,434 cases entered from 131 hospitals across the UK in early... Read more

20 Dec 2017

Latest Research Published on alicaforsen – Potential New Drug for IBD

At the start of December, a team of leading Swiss gastroenterologists specialising in the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease published positive outcomes on 12 patients that had received alicaforsen enema to treat patients experiencing a flare... Read more

20 Dec 2017