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09:00 - 10:00 
Auditorium

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)

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 (Tunbridge Wells), Hema Sekhar ( Birmingham)

Medico-Legal Course

Are you thinking about setting up a medicolegal practice and want to know what’s involved? Colorectal Surgeons Professors Nick Lees and Steve Brown are both high experienced in expert witness work and will explain what is involved. They will explain the litigation process, the role of the expert witness and the types of reports required by lawyers. They will discuss getting trained, getting instructed and getting paid. They will identify potential pitfalls and how to (hopefully) avoid them.

The session will include a presentation and time for informal questions and answers

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

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)

UK and Ireland Pelvic Exenteration Network (UKIPEN) -  New Horizons

Chairs: Ian Jenkins (London), Kirsten Boyle (Leicester), Jim Tiernan (Leeds)

• Future vision for UKIPEN - Nicola Hodges (London)
• Irish collaboration - Ailín Rogers (Dublin)
• Exenteration perspectives from across the pond - George Chang (USA)
• Human factors beyond the TME - Will Perry (USA)

Brunch

2026 Colorectal Disease & ACPGBI Neil Smart Award for Trainee Paper of the Year

Ida Kaad Faurschou (Denmark)

Chair: Nicola Eardley (Chester)

ASCRS Travelling Fellow 

Chair: Nicola Eardley (Chester)

• Kinga Olortegui (USA)

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

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

Presidential Handover and Prizes

Close of Meeting

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