Cross-Party Group on IBD September 20 2023 @ 6pm Minute Present MSPs Pauline Mc Neill MSP Convenor Clare Adamson MSP Vice Convenor Invited guests Pamela Smith (staff) Graham Rough, Director of Saturday School Ltd (GR) Dr Shahida Din, Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Western General Hospital (SD) Dr Kevin Gallagher, Specialist Trainee in Urological Surgery and Clinical lecturer at University College London and University of Edinburgh (KG) Non-MSP Group Members Elaine Steven (ES) Burcu Borysik: Head of Policy and Campaigns (virtual) (BB) Amy Deptford: Policy Manager (virtual) Caroline Brocklehurst Amy Bednarz Dr Santosh Salunke Professor Richard Russell (RR) Nurse Consultant Seth Squires All virtual Liz Bardell Graham Naismith Kirsty Gibson Maia Quail Fiona Mcclusky (FM) Dagmar Kastner Lorna Kristin May 1 Aurdey Wild Smith Harvey Humphrey Apologies Liam McArthur MSP Colin Smyth MSP Dr Ian Arnott Dr Iain Chalmers Dr Jen Veryan Mairead Keegan CNS Pauline Bell Sandra McCrae Edmund Murray Agenda item 1 PMcN welcomed everyone to the meeting Agenda item 2 th The Minute from the meeting June 14 2023 was approved.