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09:00 - 10:00
Auditorium
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Quality Improvement in Colorectal Surgery
Chairs: Alastair Simpson (Nottingham), Anne Pullyblank (Bristol)
- GIRFT - GS/ IBD - Mark Cheetham (Shrewsbury)
- GIRFT - CR Rectal cancer work stream - Alastair Simpson (Nottingham)
- How can you use NCIP data to enhance your practice - Charles Maxwell-Armstrong (Nottingham)
- Virtual hospital can improve your service and training - Vanash Patel (West Hertfordshire)
- TACTIC: Timeliness of Access to colon Cancer Treatment - Improving Care - Kate Walker (London)
- Improving endoscopy service in the NHS - Sas Banerjee (London)
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09:00 - 10:00
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HSIL / AIN GUIDELINES
Chairs: Tamzin Cuming (London), Andrew Renehan (Manchester)
Background to AIN/anal HSIL and its treatment - Tamzin Cuming (London)
Previous Guidelines: Background to guideline questions - Andrew Renehan (Manchester)
New Guidelines - Tamzin Cuming (London)
Setting up a service - David James (Oxford)
Q&A and Panel discussion - Danielle Brogden (London), Hema Sekhar (Manchester)
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09:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session
Meeting Room 1B
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Medico-Legal Course
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09:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session
Meeting Room 2A
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AI Workshop
The ACPGBI AI Taskforce identified a striking gap between AI adoption and AI understanding within colorectal surgery:
➡️ 43.5% of colorectal surgeons use AI daily
➡️ Only 1 in 3 can explain how it works
This highly interactive workshop has been designed to bridge that gap — with no lectures, no coding, and no prior technical background required.
Participants will:
🔹 Build, train and test their own AI model using a browser-based platform
🔹 Learn how AI models learn from data
🔹 Understand how to build and assess datasets for AI
🔹 Recognise when AI models may be failing
🔹 Explore the key questions clinicians should ask before AI tools are implemented in practice
The workshop will also contribute to real surgical AI research through collaborative video annotation and dataset development as part of the ACPGBI AI Taskforce initiative.
👥 Open to colorectal surgeons, trainees and allied health professionals.
💻 All you need is:
• A laptop or tablet
• A modern web browser
• A Google login
This is a rare opportunity to gain practical, hands-on AI experience directly relevant to colorectal practice.
Register for the workshop when registering for the conference or email acpgbievents@execbs.com
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10:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session
Hall 2A
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Early Diagnosis
Chairs: Farhat Din ( Edinburgh) and Dale Vimalachandran (Chester)
Stage I/II CRC in England - Leo Watton, (NBOCA)
Novel Screening tools:
- CANSENSE - Dean Harris (Swansea)
- TRIOMIC - Jon Lacy-Colson (Shrewsbury)
- COLOFIT - David Humes (Nottingham)
- Double FiT - Julian Camilleri-Brennan (Edinburgh)
- Improving screening uptake - Christian von Wagner (London)
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
UK-PEN
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| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Brunch
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
CSSANZ Travelling Fellow
- Christopher Steen (Australia)
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| 12:00 - 12:15 |
ASCRS Travelling Fellow
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| 12:15 - 13:15 |
Ambulatory Proctology 
Chairs Gregory Thomas (London), Stephen Ward (Birmingham)
- Ambulatory and office based proctology - what's possible. Kathryn McCarthy (Bristol)
- Ambulatory Pilonidal surgery- Asha Senapati (Portsmouth)
- Anal fistula- The good, the bad and the (very) ugly -Phil Tozer (London)
- Panel discussion
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| 12.15 to 13.15 |
Watch and Wait Management of Rectal Cancer: ACPGBI Position Statement
Introduction
Chairs: Chris Cunnigham, Oxford, Claire Arthur, Manchester
- The ACPGBI position statement - Andrew Renehan, (Manchester) Position Statement lead
- Illustrative case - Claire Arthur (Manchester)
Panellists (all are Position Statement Task Force members)
- Andrew Renehan, Manchester, Colorectal surgeon
- Alastair Simpson, Nottingham, GIRFT lead and surgeon
- Sunny Myint, Liverpool, Clinical Oncologist
- Claire Arthur, Manchester, Clinical oncologist
- Anita Wale, London, Radiologist
- Vanessa Denvir, Patient
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| 13:15 - 13:45 |
The Professor Neil Smart Legacy
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13:45 - 1400
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Presidential Handover and Prizes
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| 14:00 |
Close of Meeting
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