29 Sep
SALTS Centre
Richard Street, Birmingham, B7 4AA, United Kingdom, 29th September 2026 - 30th September 2026
⭐ Highlights
🎯 Clinically orientated discussion with senior surgeons
🩺 Hands-on lower GI reconstruction simulation
🤝 Dedicated allied healthcare professional programme on 30 September
👥 Participants welcome:
Paediatric surgery trainees and residents
Early-year consultants with an interest in colorectal disease
Allied healthcare professionals
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Draft Programme
| 29/9/2026 | Session Title | Facilitator |
| Welcome & Introduction | Kat Ford | |
| Anorectal Malformations | ||
| Bottoms up! A practical approach to ARM | Kat O’Shea & Sarah Almond | |
| BREAK | ||
| Cloaca | ||
| Understanding Cloaca | Joe Curry | |
| Cloaca MDT Service | Sonia Basson | |
| ARM Panel Discussion | ||
| Prepared and invited questions | KO’S, SA, JC, SB | |
| LUNCH | ||
| Hirschsprung’s Disease | ||
| Overview | Stavros Loukogeorgakis | |
| Reconstruction (technique, comparison, outcomes) | Gregor Walker | |
| Complex scenarios (syndromic, TCA, TZPT) | Hemanshoo Thakkar | |
| BREAK | ||
| Parent & Patient Perspective | ||
| Living with a complex congenital condition | Max’s Trust
Patient Charity |
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| Overview of evidence of the lived experience | Kat Ford | |
| HD and Patient Perspective Panel Discussion | ||
| Prepared and invited questions | SL, GW, HT, KT, KF | |
| 30/9/2026 | Session Title | Facilitator |
| Outcomes | ||
| It’s not going well, what do I do? | Rachel Harwood | |
| National Reporting and CESOR | Ben Allin | |
| Beyond Childhood with a Congenital Colorectal Condition | Kat Ford | |
| Decision making in difficult scenarios | ||
| Panel discussion | Chaired by Felicity Arthur | |
| BREAK | ||
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease | ||
| Crohn’s Disease | Simon Blackburn | |
| Ulcerative Colitis | Joe Taylor | |
| LUNCH | ||
| Parallel afternoon sessions | ||
| 1. Simulation (PSARP model) and Viva practice | Faculty | |
| 2. Colorectal Allied Healthcare Symposium | Led by AHP | |
Course Co-Ordinator: Kat Ford
Course Committee: Sarah Almond, Joe Taylor, Rachel Harwood, Hemanshoo Thakkar, Joe Curry
Course Faculty: Expert colleagues and allied HCP