Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) continues to pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for clinicians worldwide. This session, led by Dr. Laurenda Obeng, will provide a comprehensive update on current best practices and emerging developments in the management of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The talk will cover advances in understanding disease pathophysiology, diagnostic innovations, and the expanding role of biologics and small molecule therapies. Emphasis will be placed on early risk stratification, personalised treatment strategies, and multidisciplinary care. Attendees will gain practical insights into optimising patient outcomes, improving quality of life, and integrating new evidence into everyday clinical practice.

Over the last 2-3 years, endoscopy procedures have become more complex, through development and implementation of new skills, giving patients a shorter hospital stay. However, this has meant the sedation given in the endoscopy department is deeper, and patients were still being monitored with standard NIBP, pulse oxymetry, and standard ECG. Capnography has now given us a furhter non-invasive monitoring of tidal CO2, although it is used in an aneasthetic setting, it has.now been recognised by BSG as gold standard for monitoring patients under deep sedation within a non-anaesthetic setting, such as endoscopy departments. This presentation will talk through our journey from novice to expert in the use of capnography.

Discussion of the experience of transgender and gender diverse patients, and the role gastrointestinal nurses can play in making practice more inclusive and focused on patient wellbeing within endoscopy departments.

Recognising patients as experts in their own experience is key in maintaining clear, timely and relevant information provision across their cancer journey. With the help of our patients through focus group workshops, online survey, iterative feedback a multi -media approach to information provision was created. This approach promoted understanding, empowerment and shared decision making. This project demonstrated the value of meaningful patient involvement in developing cancer information resources.

Clinical negligence costs the NHS over £2billion annually and yet many professionals working in the system do not have a clear understanding of what defines negligence and how cases of perceived harm make it as far as legal proceedings. This session will provide an overview of clinical negligence, the law underpinning medical-legal cases, the role of the expert witness and how this knowledge can influence practice and why we don’t need to be perfect practitioners.

The RCN Gastrointestinal Forum Committee are a group of 7 professionals who aim to promote, develop and support nursing within the speciality in the UK. Using a strategy of listening, learning and leading we are able to lead the development of multiple initiatives and collaborate on projects to advance patient care within gastrointestinal nursing.

The RCN's Gastrointestinal Forum Committee presents a selection of new research on topics such as liver competencies, IBD evaluation and more.

Ruling Addictions Out of Your Differentials explores how substance use and dependence are often overlooked or misattributed in gastrointestinal presentations. Drawing on clinical evidence and practice examples, this session challenges assumptions that separate “Nursing” and “Addiction” care. Delegates will examine how alcohol, prescribed drugs, and emerging substances can mimic or mask GI conditions, and how unconscious bias and structural stigma influence diagnostic reasoning. The session offers a pragmatic approach to taking a substance-aware history, improving safety, and reframing addiction as a key consideration within holistic gastroenterology assessment.