Gut diagnosis partnership
Improving gut diagnosis together
Clear, evidence-based diagnosis matters. Our partnership brings together leading charities, healthcare organisations and people with lived experience to support clinical decision-making and help make the pathway to diagnosis easier for everyone.
Who created these pathways?
Every day, people throughout the UK visit their GP to find out why they have gut problems. But getting a diagnosis isn’t always straightforward. These pathways were shaped by charities, clinicians and people with lived experience to:
Support GPs and primary healthcare professionals.
Make the process of diagnosis clearer and less overwhelming for patients.
Partner organisations
The organisations behind the pathways.
These charities and professional bodies contributed clinical expertise, evidence and lived experience to ensure the pathways are accurate, practical and grounded in real-world care.
The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland
British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN)
Coeliac UK
Crohn's & Colitis UK
Crohn's in Childhood Research Association (CICRA)
Guts UK
IBS Network (now closed)
Steering group
Hilary Croft - CEO of Coeliac UK
Dr Keith Lindley - Consultant and Honorary Reader in Paediatric Gastroenterology
Dr Charles Maxwell-Armstrong - Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon
Alison Reid - Former CEO of IBS Network
Sarah Sleet - Former CEO of Crohn's & Colitis UK
Julie Thompson - Information Manager for Guts UK
Heidi Urwin - Director of Evidence and Policy for Coeliac UK
Dr Andrew Veitch - President of British Society of Gastroenterology
Project team
Healthcare consultant
Cathy Picton – Policy and Healthcare Consultant
Crohn's & Colitis UK
Rachel Ainley – Former Head of Research & Evidence
Nathaniel Woo – Health Services Assistant
Jess Turner – Former Health Services Manager
Ruth Wakeman – Former Director of Services, Advocacy & Evidence
Nick Sutton – Health Information Senior Officer
Task and finish group
Dr Sarah Alderson - GP
Dr Ian Arnott - Consultant Gastroenterologist in Scotland
Debra Attwood (co-chair) - Lived experience of Ulcerative Colitis
Pearl Avery - IBD Nurse Specialist
Mr Sas Banerjee - Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Grace Brownfield - Lived experience of Coeliac Disease
Dr Shahida Din (co-chair) - Consultant Gastroenterologist in Scotland
Dr Barney Hawthorne - IBD Lead in Wales
Tor Maxted - Lived experience of IBS
Dr Andrew Murdock - Consultant Gastroenterologist in Northern Ireland
Dr Astor Rodrigues - Paediatric Consultant Gastroenterolgist
Dr Christian Selinger - Consultant Gastroenterologist
Dr Leena Sinha - Chair of BSG small bowel and nutrition group
Dr Neal Tucker - GP
Prof James Turvill - Consultant Gastroenterologist, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Dr Jeremy Woodward - Member of BSG small bowel and nutrition group.
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