The UK inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinical audit report reveals today that the majority of patients (80% adult and 77% paediatric) with Crohn’s disease saw an improvement following biological therapies. The results clearly demonstrate biological therapies for IBD are effective and safe treatments. Patterns of prescribing are also changing with earlier use in patients with... Read More

This year the SAGE Award (Shire Award for Gastrointestinal Excellence) first place has been presented to a team of clinicians from the Nottingham University Hospitals for their, Ascites Management Project during Digestive Disease Week held this year in London.  The project has shown considerable innovation and excellence in gastrointestinal care and will receive a grant... Read More

This final guideline has now been published on the NICE website. You can also find the supporting evidence, as well as all the stakeholder comments that we received during consultation and the responses to these comments. We have also produced an equality impact assessment Documents to support the guideline. The comments were invaluable in helping us to develop... Read More

NICE, 23rd July 2015 We are pleased to announce that the dyspepsia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults quality standard has been published on the NICE website today. You can view the quality standard by following this link: Dyspepsia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults: investigation and management | Guidance and guidelines | NICE

A highly successful full-time, on-site MSc in Gastroenterology has been run at Barts (through Queen Mary, University of London) for 20 years. The online / Distance Learning (DL) equivalent began in 2010, designed as a curriculum for fresh entrants into the field and as an update / extension for those already in it. There are... Read More

The @PCSGastro are pleased to be supporting @ActionHeartburn http://www.actionagainstheartburn.org.uk/about-us/ NICE Guidance Issued on Biologic Treatments for Ulcerative Colitis This week (26.2.15), the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued final guidance recommending the use of biologic therapies for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) in adult patients. REMICADE®(infliximab),... Read More

Draft guideline lists 47 new warning signs for cancer, but there is no guarantee GPs will follow them, Caroline Price finds….. http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/cancer/nice-looks-to-lower-the-bar-for-cancer-referral/20008785.article#.VJhK4cKAOo Free on-demand webinar about implementing the NICE quality standard on constipation in children and young people The 1-hour Guidelines in Practice webinar discusses NICE quality standard (QS) 62 on constipation in children and young people and its... Read More

The first ever World Pancreatic Cancer Day will be held on November 13th, 2014.  More than 30 pancreatic cancer patient organisations from around the globe have come together to organise the day with the aim of raising awareness of the fact that pancreatic cancer survival rates have barely improved over the last 40 years.  The day... Read More

Last year Core and the BSG put on the first GastroCycle. The event was a tremendous success, raising money for Core and awareness of the GI and liver disease.  It was so successful we have decided to do it again but this time with a twist.  Last year 50 cyclists rode from London to Manchester... Read More