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National University Hospital

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Centre of Excellence

Established in 2016 and now part of the National University Centre for Digestive Health, the IBD Centre of Excellence treats patients of all ages, from paediatric to adult. The hospital describes a one-stop service: a dedicated IBD clinic, a paediatric-to-adult transition service, an outpatient infusion centre for people who need biologics, an endoscopy centre, tertiary-level investigations for monitoring, and colorectal cancer surveillance. Intravenous biologics can be given at home, intestinal ultrasound is done at the point of care during the consultation, and a translational precision-medicine programme gives access to clinical trials and to newer therapies including faecal microbiota transplantation. The IBD clinic itself is run jointly by an advanced practice nurse, a gastroenterologist, a pharmacist and a dietitian, and in a flare a patient can reach the nurse by hotline for a same-day walk-in.

What this unit is strong at

  • Home administration of intravenous biologics, so a course does not require repeated hospital visits
  • Point-of-care intestinal ultrasound during the consultation itself
  • Paediatric-to-adult transition service
  • Advanced practice nurse reachable by hotline in a flare, for a same-day walk-in clinic
  • IBD clinic run jointly by an advanced practice nurse, a gastroenterologist, a pharmacist and a dietitian
  • Outpatient infusion centre for patients needing biologics
  • Translational precision-medicine programme, including faecal microbiota transplantation
  • Colorectal surgeons, dietitians, psychologists and social workers trained in IBD on the team
  • Colorectal cancer surveillance for patients with IBD
  • IBD support group

Services

  • Adult IBD
  • Paediatric IBD
  • Transition clinic
  • IBD surgery
  • Biologics service
  • Clinical trials
  • Dietitian
  • IBD nurse advice line

Where this came from

Everything on this page was read on the centre’s own published pages. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is filled in where we could not find it.

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