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ACPGBI Annual Meeting Wednesday 8 July 2026

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Time/Venue Session

09:00 - 10:00 
Auditorium

Quality Improvement in Colorectal Surgery

Chairs: Alastair Simpson (Nottingham), Anne Pullybank (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)
09:00 - 10:00
 

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)

09:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session 
Meeting Room 1B
 

Medico-Legal Course

09:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session 
Meeting Room 2A

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

10:00 - 11:00
Parallel Session
Hall 2A
 

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)
  • TRIOMICS - Jon Lacey Coulson (Origin Sciences)
  • COLOFIT - David Humes (Nottingham)
  • Double FiT - Julian Camilleri-Brennan (Edinburgh)
  • Improving screening uptake - Christian von Wagner (London)
10:00 - 11:00

UK-PEN

11:00 - 11:45

Brunch

11:45 - 12:00

CSSANZ Travelling Fellow

  • Christopher Steen (Australia)
12:00 - 12:15

ASCRS Travelling Fellow 

  • Kinga Olortegui (USA)
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
13:15 - 13:45

The Professor Neil Smart Legacy

13:45 - 1400
 

Presidential Handover and Prizes

14:00

Close of Meeting

 

 
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