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March 2021 Highlights

March 2021 Highlights

Dear members 

I hope this email finds you all well. 

I trust that you are looking forward to our BSPGHAN Annual Meeting 27-29th April. If you already registered for January, there’s no need to re-register for April.  A reminder that accepted abstracts will be published in Frontline Gastroenterology.

I hope that you are making regular use of your access to the journal and enjoying the brilliant educational material that is accessed via our members login page? 

Please see Highlights for Members – Publishing Papers to Impact on Practice for March 2021 sent from the Editor in Chief, Professor Mark Beattie.  

Best wishes 

Sue  BSPGHAN President. 


Dear Colleagues 

I wanted to highlight some of our recent published content that I thought would be of interest 

The gut microbiome: what every gastroenterologist needs to know

https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/2/118

Getting to grips with sarcopenia: recent advances and practical management for the gastroenterologist

https://fg.bmj.com/content/12/1/53

Diagnostic ileocolonoscopy: getting the basics right

https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/6/484

Refeeding syndrome : physiological background and practical management

https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/5/404

British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)-led multisociety consensus care bundle for the early clinical management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

https://fg.bmj.com/content/11/4/311

Also online first

How to manage a high-output stoma

https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/22/flgastro-2018-101108

Short bowel syndrome in infancy: recent advances and practical management

https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/16/flgastro-2020-101457

Gut-focused hypnotherapy for children and adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome

https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/22/flgastro-2020-101679

Exit strategies from the COVID-19 lockdown for children and young people receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN): lessons from the BSPGHAN Intestinal Failure Working Group experience

https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/26/flgastro-2020-101598

Eosinophilic oesophagitis: recent advances and practical management

https://fg.bmj.com/content/early/2020/09/06/flgastro-2019-101313

Check out the journal – lots of other excellent content across gastroenterology, endoscopy, hepatology and nutrition 

https://fg.bmj.com/

Follow us on twitter https://twitter.com/FrontGastro_BMJ

Check out the blog https://blogs.bmj.com/fg/

Listen to our regular podcasts https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/sets/frontline-gastroenterology

Check out the instructions for authors – send us your best work – pre submission enquiries welcome https://fg.bmj.com/pages/authors/

Mark Beattie 

Professor RM Beattie

Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist

Honorary Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Editor in Chief Frontline Gastroenterology  

Mark.beattie@uhs.nhs.uk

https://fg.bmj.com/

@FrontGastro_BMJ

Children who are CEV & vaccination advice

Children who are CEV & vaccination advice

Dear members

Children who are CEV & vaccination advice

Following our involvement in the development of the College’s advice on children and young people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, I would like to highlight the College’s recent statement on the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

As you will be aware, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that those who are clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) and aged 16+ should be vaccinated as part of priority group 4, alongside those aged 70-74. JCVI’s advice is available here. The College supports JCVI’s approach on vaccine prioritisation, and we’d encourage you to follow that. It is essential that the programme is guided by evidence and we expect to see more safety and efficacy data gathered in the next few months that will inform vaccination strategies for groups not covered by this first phase (such as children and young people under 16 who are CEV).

The RCPCH also wanted to flag with you that it has recently come to our attention that, following the introduction of lockdown in England on 4 Jan, all those who are CEV and on the NHS Digital shielded patient list in England (adults, children and young people) have been sent a letter from the DHSC advising them to shield. This letter also refers to the vaccination programme but does not make it clear that those aged under 16 are not in the priority groups in the first phase. Contrary to what is said in the letter, it is not expected that children and young people under 16 who are CEV will be invited for vaccination by mid-February 2021. The RCPCH have raised this unfortunate miscommunication issue with DHSC and NHS England and asked them to look into it.

Sue
BSPGHAN President

Frontline Gastroenterology- Online Access Now Available for BSPGHAN Members

Frontline Gastroenterology- Online Access Now Available for BSPGHAN Members

BSPGHAN Council are delighted to announce that we have consolidated an affiliation with Frontline Gastroenterology. FG is an official publication of the British Society of Gastroenterology  and is a companion journal to Gut and BMJ Open Gastroenterology. Frontline Gastroenterology publishes articles that accelerate adoption of innovative and best practice in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology and clinical nutrition. Frontline Gastroenterology is especially interested in articles on multidisciplinary research and care, focusing on both retrospective assessments of novel models of care as well as putative future directions of best practice. The journal also publishes articles in the domains of clinical quality, patient experience, service provision and medical education.

This arrangement offers an exciting opportunity for BSPGHAN members to receive Free access to the online publication as a benefit of membership.

Access is via the secure member area on the BSPGHAN website- after logging in, click on the Frontline Gastroenterology link to access the journal. If you have any problems accessing this, please email us at webmaster@bspghan.org.uk.

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