title: The need for an increased number of consultant physicians with specialist training in gastroenterology.
abstract: Medical gastroenterology has developed with great rapidity in the last decade with the introduction of new investigative and therapeutic techniques. Nearly every district general hospital now has on its staff a consultant physician with this special interest, and yet there is still a need for a further expansion in the number of such consultants. This memorandum explains why and where further consultants are needed.
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003253:Consultants; D005260:Female; D005762:Gastroenterology / Q000639:trends; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce