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Welcome to the endoscopy hub.  On this page you will find access to the latest endoscopy clinical guidelines and guidance.  You will also find the latest endoscopy news and articles and any relevant events.

Our annual meeting this year will be held in Liverpool and will feature a day of Live Endoscopy streamed from Leeds where we will demonstrate a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy key objective will be to demonstrate the expanding role for endoscopy beyond the mucosa including third space endoscopy and therapeutic pancreatico-biliary endoscopy.  Do sign up.

You can find information on the Endoscopy Section Committee on their page.

Endoscopy Guidelines

2021 Update: Endoscopy in patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy, including direct oral anticoagulants: BSG & ESGE Guidelines Update

Bowel preparation for colonoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Guideline – Update 2019. BSG endorsed.

BSG/ACPGBI/PHE Post-polypectomy and post-colorectal cancer resection surveillance guidelines

Diagnosis and management of patients at risk of gastric adenocarcinoma

Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology

Quality standards in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: a position statement of the BSG and AUGIS

BSG position statement on serrated polyps in the colon and rectum

Updated guideline on the management of common bile duct stones (CBDS)

Guideline for obtaining valid consent for gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures

BSG-ACPGBI guidelines for the management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps

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Endoscopy Guidance

An update for GI Endoscopy Services in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Joint BSG/BASL Updated Guidance on Endoscopy for Variceal Screening and Surveillance in Chronic Liver Disease Patients in the COVID-19 Pandemic Service Recovery Phase

2020 Guidance on Decontamination of Equipment for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Patient Information on Heartburn

Implementation of an endoscopy safety checklist

UK consensus on non-medical staffing required to deliver safe, quality-assured care for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Endoscopy Global Rating Scale

BSG guidance on the use of intravenous hyoscine butylbromide (buscopan) during gastrointestinal endoscopy

Rapid Colorectal Diagnostic Pathway

UK Key Performance Indicators and Quality Assurance Standards for Colonoscopy

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Endoscopy Care Bundles

Patient Experience of GI Endoscopy

Deep sedation and anaesthesia in complex gastrointestinal endoscopy

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