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GP Zone

The Birmingham Bowel Clinic offers an education programme for West Midlands based GPs and Healthcare professionals. 

 

As part of your continual professional development we would be happy to come to your practice to discuss the management of bowel conditions and present on a variety of general surgical and colorectal topics, in particular:  

• Update on treating Haemorrhoids- in particular the HALO Procedure
• Laparoscopic surgery for Colorectal disease- benign or malignant
• Investigation of rectal bleeding and anaemia
• Dealing with a patient with anal incontinence
• Imaging a patient with suspected colorectal carcinoma (delivered by Dr Ian McCafferty- Consultant Radiologist)
• Management of Colorectal Cancer (delivered by Dr Ian Geh- Consultant Oncologist)

At your request we are happy to come along to your surgery at your convenience either during lunchtime or after surgery hours. To arrange a meeting or informal visit from us please click here and we will contact you to discuss your requirements. Confirmation certilficates can be provided for CPD files.

 

As part of our GP education programme we like to gather feedback from our lectures to enable us to evaluate and plan for future education sessions. Please see below for our feedback from our recent meetings:

 

100% felt that the content of the session was appropriate to their needs for General Practice

100% thought the session met their learning objectives

64% felt that the education sessions highlighted knowledge gaps which the Birmingham Bowel Clinic could help resolve by future education sessions.

93% thought that the duration of the educational session was just right

Here are some recent comments made by local GPs:

"Excellent talk on heamorrhoids and Enhanced Recovery Programme"

"Appropriate timing of presentation and time for questions"

"Very interesting, useful information about when to refer"

"Very informative- many thanks"

"Very useful. Very interactive"