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After many successful years of service Richard Driscoll has decided to retire from his post as the Head of Crohns’ and Colitis UK. That responsibility has now been handed on to David Barker. A brief introductory video is attached (with a few people you may recognise in cameo roles in the background)   http://youtu.be/cgs5CFqZH9E

I have recently been helping to develop and fine tune the new National Inflammatory Bowel Disease Database Registry at the Royal College of Physicians, London. Already a phenomenal amount of work has already been put in to its development by Dr. Fraser Cummings and Dr. Stuart Bloom with Infoflex. The database looks promising and I am optimistic that it will…

This year I was thrilled when we were nominated for the National IBD (nursing) Team of the Year Awards held at the British Medical Association Building Unfortunately we did not win one of the highly sort after top three positions but came joint runners up. We were however honoured to be mentioned alongside this years winners and were delighted with…

Unfortunately some of you may be aware that BUPA have recently changed their private medical insurance cover. Certain restrictions have crept in which appear to particularly affect those with corporate cover policies. I am only too happy to see BUPA patients, but apologise to all those that wanted to see me but now can’t because of these new restrictions. Some patients…

Sister Tracey Price of the Luton & Dunstable Hospital was captured here helping to chair this years National Association of Crohn’s and Colitis AGM. The panel from left to right were;- Joy Mason, Tracey Price, Prof Chris Hawkey, Jamie Dalrymple (a Lead in GP Commissioning) and Richard Driscoll (Head of NACC)