Welcome to the PCSG Website

This is the home page of the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology. A massive welcome to all our new members and we hope you you enjoy your time with us.

We are continually expanding our website but highlights are a journal club which collects papers of interest to primary care gastroenterologists, hopefully, making the website an essential part of your CPD. If there are any papers you think deserve a wider audience, please share them by letting me know. Links will take you to sites of interest and members also have access to guidelines and publications produced by the Society. Our inhouse journal , Gastroenterology in Primary Care, is also available under the downloads section of the site. We also have a members only forum to discuss matters of your choice.

For any website to survive, it needs activity and, on our part, we will update it on a frequent basis but it also needs the membership to keep it relevant and we would urge you to visit often and contribute even more often.

If you are new to us, welcome. If you are interested in primary care gastroenterology, why don't you become a member? An online membership form is available on the right when you click on 'Join the PCSG'.

The committee and forum pages on this website are restricted to members. To access the pages, simply login using your login name and password. If you have lost either or both, please get in touch at the email address below.

If there anything you would like to add to this website , please contact me at : secretariat@pcsg.org.uk

 

John O'Malley

Tuesday
Jan172012

The Endoscopy Event in Birmingham (or anywhere else for that matter)

We have tried/ not tried (please delete  according to which camp you are in) to get the HS2 set up in time but it looks likely that it won't be ready.

For what you cry? For Aston Villa to travel to Wembley for the FA Cup. No, something that is not science fiction!

Yes!!! The PCSG annual endoscopy conference! 2011 was a great success and we want to provide yet another runaway event. The speaker names are still under wraps (well, in the hands of lawyers, actually) but we will have a programme posted soon and don't forget members can attend for free!

So keep the 23rd March free and come to Birmingham. Can't promise Jenny Agutter waving her bloomers but get your train tickets now!

(For the sake of our younger members, Jenny Agutter was in The Railway Children and .....well, she...and the train stopped.... don't why I bother sometimes....bad enough I have to explain who Led Zeppelin were.....)

Tuesday
Jan172012

Endoscopy meetings

For those of you involved in endoscopy, I want to bring to your attention some events which are coming up soon. If you mention you are a PCSG member, the organisers have agreed to give a £50 discount on each full price place booked.

Decoding Flexible Endoscope Decontamination Compliance
Tuesday 1st May 2012, DoubleTree by Hilton, Leeds
http://www.sbk-healthcare.com/endoscopy/decoding-flexible-endoscope-decontamination-compliance-dp12
 
Decoding Flexible Endoscope Decontamination Compliance
Tuesday 20th June 2012, Maple House, Birmingham
http://www.sbk-healthcare.com/endoscopy/decoding-flexible-endoscope-decontamination-compliance-dp13
 
Decoding Flexible Endoscopy Decontamination Compliance
21st February 2012 and will be at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Manchester
http://www.sbk-healthcare.com/endoscopy/decoding-flexible-endoscope-decontamination-compliance-dp5

Wednesday
Jan112012

Oh and Happy New Year!