14 Abstracts Submitted, Accepted and Published at the 2013 British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting This is certainly a personal record, but must be pushing a record for total number of research abstracts submitted and published by the BSG at any one National Meeting
IBD-SSHAMP (Supported, Self Help and Management Programme) has been nominated as one of the UKs Top 10 High Impact Digital NHS Innovations for 2012. We have been asked to showcase our developments at this years Health Innovation EXPO at the Excel Centre, London in March.
The Luton and Dunstable University Hospital has become the 1st hospital in UK to host the New National IBD Database Registry. We are presently a development site and the refinements are still ongoing. The aim is to trial the database at another 3-4 pilot sites. If this proves successful the programme will be rolled out throughout the country. In order…
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)Â
Tracey Price wins the runner-up prize at the NACC 2012 IBD Nurse of the Year Awards To read more click on this link.
I was delighted to hear that after years of dedication to her role, our local IBD patients have nominated Sister Tracey Price for the Crohn’s and Colitis UK IBD Nurse of the Year Award.  She has done exceptionally well and of the 486 nurses nominated this year, she has been short-listed into the final five. I would like to thank all…