Current Surveys

We are currently conducting surveys on the following topics:

International Connections - This is a short survey to collect information about links that BSG members have with gastroenterology in countries other than the UK (with colleagues, centres and international societies). Your answers will help guide how the BSG works toward developing outreach and training programmes and developing closer relations with other Gastroenterology Societies, particularly in developing countries. It would be greatly appreciated if you could spare the few minutes to help progress the BSG’s work internationally. (login required)

Eosinophilic Oesophagitis Registry - The Oesophageal section of the British Society of Gastroenterology has set up a National Registry of eosinophilic oesophagitis, to determine the frequency of this condition in Britain, to study its epidemiology and to encourage research into its patho-physiology and treatment. As you know, eosinophilic oesophagitis is being increasingly recognised in recent years and presents with food bolus obstruction, dysphagia and heartburn in adults, and regurgitation, food refusal and abdominal pain in children. Endoscopic changes have been described but the diagnosis is a histological one, based on eosinophilic infiltration of the oesophageal mucosa, > 15 or 20 per high power field, more than is normally found in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

We suspect eosinophilic oesophagitis may be under-diagnosed. We have put up a notice regarding the setting up of this Registry on the BSG website, and are also e-mailing members of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and ENT UK. We would also like to draw your attention to this condition, to remind you to refer patients who present with dysphagia, food impaction and atypical or resistant reflux symptoms for endoscopy and oesophageal biopsies even if the oesophageal mucosa appears macroscopically normal. We would also ask that you enter all cases of eosinophilic oesophagitis into the Registry.

Please note: No log-in is required to enter data into the Registry