BSGNA Terms of Reference

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

Purpose

To support training, education, research and guidelines pertinent to nursing within the BSG.
To work alongside external bodies to promote the expanding role of nursing in England and the devolved nations.
To represent the interests and concerns of the BSG members specialising in Gastrointestinal nursing.
To manage the future direction of the BSGNA Section Committee in line with changes within the NHS.
To develop professional collaborations nationally and internationally with the formal approval of the Executive.
To support recruitment and retention of members in the speciality of Gastroenterology and endoscopy.
To hold a monothematic meeting every 3 years to promote the work of the speciality group to the broader community.

Duties

To hold at least three meetings per calendar year.
To monitor delivery of the BSGNA Section Committee strategy and provide an annual report to the President Elect at the BSG on the Committee’s activity for the last 12 months.
To work with BSG members and external partners to develop nursing priorities.

Membership
The membership of the BSGNA Section Committee is laid out in the Regulations of the BSG.

The Section Committee must have a minimum of 4 members and a maximum of 12, 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.
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 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.
Committee Members may stand for a maximum term of 3 years after which they must be fallow for 12 months before reapplying to join the Committee.

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