This special podcast highlights the papers chosen to be part of the #FGCup, the annual Frontline Gastroenterology competition to choose the readers favourite review paper in 2024.

Dr Giovanna McGinty, a Trainee Associate Editor for FG and Gastroenterology Registrar at North Bristol Trust interviews (and contributes to the discussion) Dr Philip Smith, Editor in Chief of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Dr Oliver Tavabie Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Hepatologist at Leeds Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.

They discuss the following papers:

• Improving management of eosinophilic oesophagitis in adults in the UK: proposal for an integrated care pathway
• British Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Quality Improvement Programme: minimum service standards and good practice statements
• From O’Shaughnessy to opportunity: innovating Hepatology Trials in the UK
• Chronic abdominal pain in inflammatory bowel disease: a practical guide
• Colonic stents: who, where, when
• Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
• Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of amoebiasis
• Neuroendocrine tumours found at endoscopy: diagnosis and staging

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This podcast is focused on the paper "Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2024. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at FG and Gastroenterology SpR at North Bristol Foundation Trust, interviews the authors Drs Jenny Scott, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, and Varinder Athwal, Consultant Hepatologist at Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust.

Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/6/516.info

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Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist in Wolverhampton, UK interviews Dr Benjamin Zare, Gastroenterology registrar and a clinical research fellow undertaking his PhD at St Marks Academic Institute, London UK and Dr Mark Samaan who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a sub-specialist interest in IBD working at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK, on the paper 'Effectiveness of risankizumab induction and maintenance therapy for refractory Crohn’s disease: a real-world experience from a preapproval access programme and early access to medicines scheme' published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in October 2024.

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