Liver Disease in Primary care

This popular course at the University of Birmingham is being repeated again this year on the 25th and 26th of October.

It  aims to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of liver diseases and how to manage them in primary care.

Learning Objectives

• An understanding of how to interpret liver function tests, when to investigate and when to consider referral
• How to identify the patients with chronic liver disease
• The community management of alcohol use disorders
• Developments in non alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Screening and community management of viral hepatitis
• Gall bladder disease - who to suspect and when to refer
• Vaccination and drugs in patients with liver disease
• An update on liver transplantation
• The National Liver Plan from the liver czar

The details can be found in the events section of this website.

Apologies

We are having some glitches this end with our new membership entry. Please bear with us if you have applied to be a member and not heard anything and, for now, you can send your details to me direct (Johnomalley@nhs.net) and I will get you signed up asap.

Thanks

The latest JPCSG

I know, I know. The wait has been a painful one. But calm your beating hearts. Not as exciting as the latest Jo Nesbo (Is Harry Hole really dead?) and not involving as many rats and Norwegians, but I have the pleasure to announce the Spring (yes I know it was bit late, stop sniggering at the back of class) edition of the JPCSG to be now available for your perusal , or anything else, in the downloads section of the website.

So............. now working on the Summer one! Case histories? Articles? Ideas for writers? Subjects?

Bring forth your droplets of perspicacity.(Thank somebody for spell chackers.... checkers)

The patient's view.

Stereotypically, or not so in some cases, we often label patients by their disease; ' the infarction in bed 3' scenario.

But patients are people first and their stories often put the humanity back into the way we look at disease. In that vein can I recommend patient journey in today's BMJ on how Ulcerative Colitis affected and continues to affect a young woman.

A patient's Journey; Ulcerative Colitis

CICRA London Open Day

Those of you unfortunate enough, in this year of the Olympics, to be near the capital may be interested in the London Open Day and AGM being held by CICRA, the Crohns in Childhood Research Association. It is being hosted by the Institute of Child Health on Saturday 23rd of June. The poster is in the events section.