Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The IBD service at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has provided a comprehensive service for IBD patients over the last 30 years. Specialist IBD clinic by clinicians and IBD specialist nurses runs weekly in addition to a ward base for the service and a weekly in reach service of IBD ward patients by a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring easy access for urgent patient review. The team includes IBD specialist nurses who provide a nurse led telephone help line, community clinics and an infusion service for patients on biological therapies. Specialist clinics: transition clinic for patients transferring from paediatric care and joint medical-surgical IBD clinic runs on a regular basis. These are in conjunction with the Sheffield Children’s Hospitals and the department of colorectal surgery, who have considerable expertise in surgical aspects of IBD. Weekly joint radiology MDT and departmental meeting allows multidisciplinary management of complex patients including those who require escalation to biological therapy. There is therefore the opportunity for considerable, concentrated exposure to the management of complex IBD. Professor Alan Lobo, who leads the service is the current chair of the NICE Guideline Development Group for ulcerative colitis
(http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG/Wave25/9/Consultation/Latest) and has been a recent member of the NICE Crohn’s disease GDG (http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG152) , as well as a member of the national IBD committee of the BSG. In addition there are 3 other consultants specialising in IBD: Dr Alenka Brooks, Dr Melissa Hale, and Dr Josh Chew.
The IBD team is involved in research projects including immunogenicity to infliximab, health behaviours in young people with IBD and several multi-centre trials.
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