UKPCG (UK Paediatric Colorectal Group)

Chair

Joe Curry

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

Great Ormond Street Hospital

AIMS

To improve outcomes for children with colorectal conditions by having a forum where consultants can openly discuss difficult cases, complications, mistakes and issues for consultants to learn from.
To collaborate with allied special-interest groups such as clinical nurse specialists, surgical trainees, adult services and patients/patient organisations in order to improve outcomes for children with colorectal conditions.
To provide a common voice for UK paediatric colorectal specialists.
To foster progress in the care of colorectal conditions through research, education and the sharing of best practice.

MEETINGS

Currently, we hold meetings twice per year, in tandem with the summer and winter BAPS meetings. The meetings cover discussion of complex cases, important ‘recurrent’ clinical issues, technical tips and basic science.
More recently we have begun online meetings, including online journal clubs.
- Karen Dick (Chair Paediatric Stoma Nurses Group) is helping to ensure that nurses with a special interest in colorectal conditions are aware of the meetings.
- Felicity Arthur and Hetal Patel are helping ensure that senior trainees with the intention of developing a paediatric colorectal practice have the opportunity to attend.
- Alexander MacDonald (Chelsea & Westminster), Karen Dick (Chair Paediatric Stoma Nurses Group) and Niyi Ade-Ajayi (Kings College Hospital) have kindly offered to support the IT aspects.

KEY AREAS

EDUCATION

Sonia Basson (Manchester), Joe Curry and Hemanshoo Thakkar (GOSH) have taken the lead in education. They have set up a monthly online journal club.

TRANSITION

Mike Stanton (Southampton) and Alun Williams will lead on this aspect with suggested areas being the identification priorities for service users and clinical teams and determining how collaboration between paediatric surgical centres with adult units and patients’ organisations to address these issues can be best achieved.

AREAS TO DEVELOP

We want to consider how to pool expertise and collaborate in the following areas: research, patient pathway development, metric construction and the development of high-quality patient information that can be shared across centres

LINK SURGEONS

Each centre has provided a link surgeon able to co-ordinate colorectal protocols and practice.

As of September 2020 these are:

Surgeon	Centre	Surgeon	Centre
Yatin Patel	Aberdeen	Clare Rees	Imperial
Irene Milliken	Belfast	Niyi Ade-Ajayi	Kings
Oli Gee	Birmingham	Jonathan Sutcliffe	Leeds
Bommaya Narayanaswamy	Brighton	Bala Eradi	Leicester
Eleri Cusick	Bristol	Sarah Almond	Liverpool
Georgina Malakounides	Cambridge	Fraser Horwood	Manchester
Olly Jackson	Cardiff	Bruce Jaffray	Newcastle
Muhammed Choudhry	Chelsea and Westminster	Richard England	Norwich
Alan Mortell	Dublin	Dan Colliver	Nottingham
Claire Clark	Edinburgh	Silke Wagner	Oxford
Ali Keshtgar	Evelina	Stewart Cleeve	Royal London
Gregor Walker	Glasgow	Govind Murthi	Sheffield
Joe Curry	GOS	Mike Stanton	Southampton
Debora Morgante	Hull	Dean Rex	St Georges

Please sign into the membership portal to look up your link surgeon.

Special Interest Links, Support Groups and Allied Organisations

Paediatric Stoma Nurse Group (PSNG) was established in 2005 by paediatric (children) stoma nurses in the UK & Ireland. The group meets three times per year at various venues around the country and organises an annual study day.

https://karenadmin.wixsite.com/paediatricstomanurse

CICRA supports children living with Crohn’s & colitis, and their families. They aim to fund research and raise awareness of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.