IBD Section Committee Terms of Reference

Date Approved by IBD Section: May 2020
Date Approved by Executive: TBC
Date of Review: August 2021

Reporting
The IBD Section Committee is accountable to the BSG President Elect.

Purpose

To support training, education, research and guidelines of IBD within the BSG.
To work alongside different external bodies to promote the expanding role of IBD in the UK.
To represent the interests and issues of the BSG members specialised in IBD.
To manage the future direction of the IBD committee in accordance with shifts in the NHS.
To develop professional collaborations nationally and internationally with the formal approval of the Executive.
To support the recruitment and retention of members in the specialty of Gastroenterology.

Duties

The IBD Section Chair will serve as the ECCO National representative.
The IBD Section Chair will serve as a Director of the IBD Registry.
To improve the care of patients with IBD within the whole of the UK.
To support the clinical community with regard to service provision and drug availability.
To support high quality education on inflammatory bowel disease.
To interact with Crohn`s and Colitis UK to support patients with IBD.
To support IBD research in the UK.
To facilitate the availability and appropriative use of new therapies in IBD.
To advise NICE/SMC on their technology assessments in IBD.
To develop & update clinical guidelines & produce guidance documents.
To guide on the IBD quality improvement.
To produce an annual educational programme for the BSG national meeting.
To hold a monothematic meeting every 3 years to promote the work of the specialty group to the broader community.

Membership

The Section Committee must have a minimum of 4 members and a maximum of 12, one of which must be a trainee.
The Chair and Secretary must be elected members and have a minimum of 1 year, of their 3 year term, left when elected by the Committee as Chair and Secretary.
The appointment term for committee membership is 3 years.
The Chair and Secretary will be elected from the membership of the Committee and will each serve 3 years.
A representative from the BSGNA.
A representative of the RCN IBD Nurse Group.
The Chair is able to co-opt members to join the Committee with the approval of the Section. Co-opted members will be ‘task and time limited’ to respect the democratic election process within the Society. Co-opted members should not be granted ongoing roles within the Committee after the timebound task for which they have been co-opted. A record of co-opted members should be agreed by the Committee and members should be stood down once their task is completed.

The meeting will be quorate if, as a minimum, the following members are present:

Chair or Secretary
At least 4 Section representatives