Dec 27, 2020
The first three sessions of an online symposium, ‘Innovations and transformations in nursing practice’, arranged by St Mark’s Hospital, a tertiary bowel centre in London. These sessions were originally broadcast on Friday, the 20th of November 2020, as part of St Mark’s 18th Annual International Congress,...
Dec 1, 2020
Wendy Osborne, Clinical Lead at Coloplast, speaks with Amanda Gunning, Lead Stoma Care Nurse at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital NHS Trust, about outward body profiles in people with an ostomy, covering the causes and impacts of parastomal bulges and hernias. They explain how stoma care nurses can help...
Nov 6, 2020
This episode covers psychological therapies for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Benjamin Wakefield speaks to Graeme Smith, Professor of Nursing at the Caritas Institute of Higher Education in Hong Kong, about the symptoms of IBS, its causes and its links to the gut–brain axis, as well as how it can be diagnosed...
Oct 8, 2020
Under increasing financial pressure, health services are having to confront a growing spend on stoma care appliances and accessories. Benjamin Wakefield speaks with Andrew Bird (Clinical Lead for Connect Prescription Service, Fittleworth) about how stoma care nurses, manufacturers and dispensers can control...
Aug 25, 2020
How the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurses deliver care to patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Benjamin Wakefield and Lisa Younge (IBD Nurse Consultant, St Mark’s) talk to Catherine Stansfield (IBD Nurse Consultant, Salford Royal)...