WELCOME
Welcome to the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (known as BSPGHAN), the national, professional and academic society which represents specialty colleagues working for infants, children and young people with digestive and liver disorders.
WHO WE ARE
BSPGHAN is a society that brings together colleagues from a range of professional disciplines and is recognised by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) as the society responsible for this field of paediatric medicine.
BSPGHAN’s membership is renowned for its friendliness and inclusivity. Membership stands at around 500 members, comprising consultants and specialist trainees in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition; affiliated health care professionals such as specialist dieticians, nurses, pharmacists, clinical psychologists and scientists. This breadth of membership is a great benefit to the society and the wide range or professionals serve to represent our models of care for families. BSPGHAN has Professional groups and Working Parties to advocate for the key issues that our patients face.
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News and Updates
PFIC trial
Mirum Pharmaceuticals is striving to bring transformative medicines who have rare cholestastic liver conditions. In keeping with their mission they have instituted a a Phase 3 study called MARCH to evaluate the safety and efficacy of maralixibat in pediatric patients with PFIC. Eligible patients in this clinical study may help provide new insights into PFIC and could lead to the first approved drug therapy. For full details please visit https://pfictrial.com/
RCPCH Release Position Statement on Ehlers-Danlos diagnosis
Please go to https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/establishing-correct-diagnosis-ehlers-danlos-syndrome-hypermobility-type-heds-children to read the full statement.
New 2019 IBD Standards launch
In June the new IBD Standards has been launched with the aim to improve how we care for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) across the UK. These have been created by IBD UK, a partnership of 17 patient and professional organisations, including BSPGHAN, the BSG, CICRA and Crohn’s & Colitis UK. The IBD Standards say what high-quality care should look like at every point of a patient’s journey – from first symptoms, to diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care, whatever their age and wherever they live in the UK. They also set out how an IBD service should be organised and managed to deliver this. Paediatric and adolescent care has been considered throughout. Announced at the BSG annual conference, these 59 statements set out what good care and treatment looks like for patients with IBD, with the aim that every IBD service in the UK will work to meet these. A new digital IBD Benchmarking Tool has been developed to help with this, so that services can assess how they are doing...
Upcoming Events
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Apollo Children’s Hands on Endoscopy Workshop
Apollo Hospital, DelhiTo commemorate 27 years of the first successful Pediatric Liver Transplant in India Apollo Children's is organising a Hands on Endoscopy Workshop XI KVO Update on Hot topics CME on […]
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BSPGHAN Education Series: How to publish a paper by dr. Richard Hansen
ZoomYou are invited to register for a Zoom webinar! When: Dec 11, 2025 12:00 PM London Topic: BSPGHAN Education Series: How to publish a paper by dr. Richard Hansen Register […]
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Paediatric Portal Hypertension: Disease Specific Issues in Natural History and Management
Baveno , ItalyDownload programme (PDF) Visit Website