Essentials Webinar Series is a programme of 1.5-hour webinars – broadcast live – providing expert specialist clinical training and essential information. These webinars are recorded live and are available for delegates to access freely for six months from the webinar date. 

Brought to you by the RCGP Beds and Herts Faculty this open-to-all webinar, will go through the management of acute flares of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBD), including when and what steroids to use, who to talk to if you’re concerned or stuck, and how to support your patient cohort with patient-initiated management of mild-moderate flares of IBD.

Learning objectives:

  1. Understand the pitfalls of steroid use.
  2. How to use them safely and the alternatives.
  3. How to support patients in the patient-centred management of their own diseases.

Webinar Chair:

Dr Emma Salik, RCGP Beds and Herts Faculty Education Lead

Webinar Speakers:

Dr Jo Brooks PhD MRCP, Academic IBD Gastroenterologist and Deborah Morris, Lead IBD Nurse

Pricing:

  • AiT rate – £15
  • RCGP Member rate – £20
  • Non-Member rate – £30

This is part one of a series of six Gastroenterology webinars.  Each webinar has to be booked individually. Dates for your diary:

  • 5 October 2021 – Part 2: IBD: Safe steroids and patient-centred management with mesalazine
  • November (date tbc) – Part 3: Pancreatic and liver masses
  • 1 December 2021 – Part 4 – The interpretation of LFTs in Primary care, the clinical significance
  • January 2022 (date tbc) – Part 5 – Diagnosis, management and treatment of pancreatobiliary conditions
  • 22 February 2022 – Part 6 – Dyspepsia and reflux disease