2025 Programme

Please note: Companies listed have provided sponsorship supporting the conference, with no input or control over the agenda, content creation, or speaker selection, except for their sponsored sessions.

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Registration
Opening
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Welcome
Opening
Speaker
Leigh Donnelly
Endoscopy Education & Development Lead
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
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Yellow card reporting adverse events
Presentation
Speaker
Gerri Mortimore
Associate Professor
University of Derby
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Sponsored session #1
Presentation
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Morning break and exhibition viewing
Break
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The Future of Gastrointestinal Nursing Panel
Panel
Speakers
Pearl Avery
NMP Lead
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Leigh Donnelly
Endoscopy Education & Development Lead
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
Gerri Mortimore
Associate Professor
University of Derby
Laurence Lovat
Clinical Director WEISS Centre
UCL
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Specialist Stoma Care Nurse and ASCN UK Advancing Stoma Care Services projects
Presentation
Speakers
Angie Perrin
Clinical Education Lead
Salts Healthcare
Maddie White
Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT
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Priorities of seldom heard colorectal survivors
Presentation
Speaker
Claire Coughlan
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Lunch break and exhibition viewing
Break
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Liver Competency
Panel

The RCN Gastrointestinal Forum are working with the British Liver Nurses Association to update the Liver Competency Framework. This fourth edition will ensure nurses working in the specialist areas of liver disease and liver transplantation can continue to be developed within a recognised and credible knowledge and skills framework to support personal development and career progression.

Speakers
Michelle Clayton
Rebekah Hill
Associate Professor of Nursing
University of East Anglia

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SPIKES delivering bad news in Endoscopy
Presentation
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Crohns and what’s next in treating IBD
Panel
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Afternoon break and exhibition viewing
Break
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IBD and pregnancy
Presentation
Speaker
Helen Janiszewski
Consultant midwife
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Closing remarks
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