Editor–The British Society of Gastroenterology have done a superb job in providing timely
and well thought-out guidance for endoscopy services following the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 …

Editor–The British Society of Gastroenterology have done a superb job in providing timely
and well thought-out guidance for endoscopy services following the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 …

DOI: 10.7861/clinmed. ed. 20.4. 1 Many of us develop earworms–those pieces of music that
get stuck in your head–and it appears that they seem to be especially intrusive at times of …

We are extremely grateful to Turvill and Farrugia for their responses to our recent manuscript
(1, 2). FIT is being rapidly but variably deployed across the NHS as a non-invasive triage test …

The first large UK audit of colonoscopy standards undertaken by Bowles et al revealed a
caecal intubation rate (CIR) of only 56.9% from 9223 procedures. 1 The potential …

We read with interest the recent paper by Raju et al that highlighted the impact of the COVID-
19 pandemic on gastroenterology training in the UK. 1 This national survey of …

The Joint Advisory Group (JAG) on gastrointestinal endoscopy carries out a biennial census
of endoscopy services in the UK and these provide informative snapshots of aspects of …

We read the study by Rutter et al1 with interest. The substantial decrease in the cancer
detection rate in the UK as a consequence of a reduction in endoscopy activity during the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reduced access to diagnostic endoscopy across
the UK. As such, demand for timely investigation exceeds immediate National Health …

In 2018/2019, 587 517 patients in England were referred on an urgent gastrointestinal (GI)
two-week-wait (2WW) cancer pathway. 1 Patients attend straight-to-test endoscopy …