Around the regions
October 2011
Your help is needed!
Following on from Mr Conor Magee’s presentation to affiliates at this year’s AUGIS conference in Belfast your help is needed to gain more information on the incidence and management of late hypoglycaemia following gastric bypass surgery.
Please visit the website below to complete the questionnaire
www.wlsinfo.org.uk/index/rheostat
Promoting AUGIS as a forum for Upper GI nurse specialists
I conducted a survey in April 2011 of Upper GI nurse specialists across the country to establish their awareness and interest in AUGIS as a forum for education and professional development.
CQuINS website was used to identify the contact details of Upper GI nurse specialists in England. A short questionnaire was sent to 200 nurse specialists identified from the website, asking if they are current AUGIS members, if not if they are interested in joining plus their links with other forums.
97 nurses responded, achieving a response rate of 48.5%. Table 1 shows the distribution of nurses according to upper GI cancer speciality. Click on the link below to read more:
Opportunities in Bariatric and Metabolic studies
Information needs of patients undergoing curative treatments for oesophageal cancer
I am currently working with AUGIS on ways to develop the affiliate section to make it more relevant to us all.
One way to do this will be to provide regular updates on current issues and events within the specialities of upper GI disease and bariatrics which are particularly relevant to affiliates.
We would like to make the Affiliate section of the website more interactive and give you the opportunity to share issues and publicise events happening in your workplace. This could include study days, publications, projects that affiliates may find informative or other events.
We hope this will prove to be a simple but effective way of disseminating good practice on a national level.
There will be a regular ‘regional update’ link on the affiliate page which will highlight recent information updates according to region.
Feel free to get in touch!
Jane Tallett
Affiliates Representative
