Information about digestive conditions and symptoms
Guts UK provides expert patient information and support for digestive conditions and symptoms affecting the gut, liver and pancreas.
As the national charity for the digestive system, we provide information and support on more than 40 digestive conditions and symptoms, as well as testing and monitoring and health and lifestyle. Discover our range of patient information here:
If you’re a healthcare professional working in a hospital or clinic, you can order printed copies of our information leaflets for your patients here.
Information you can trust
Guts UK is proud to be a trusted information creator for health information, gaining our PIF TICK accreditation from the Patient Information Forum in 2023.
What is the PIF TICK?
The PIF TICK is the UK’s only assessed quality mark for printed and online health information. To gain this accreditation, Guts UK had to undertake a very thorough assessment after applying. The process that we use to produce information was scrutinised by experts and we had to show our production process met PIF’s essential criteria for trustworthy information.
Information that has the sealed approval of a PIF TICK is evidence-based, understandable, jargon-free, up-to-date, and produced to the best possible standard.
Why is a PIF TICK important?
We know that when it comes to our guts, information and knowledge is power. It’s important to us that we’re producing robust, trustworthy and evidence-based information. With expert patient information, people can take control of their health and make informed decisions.
We want our community to trust and feel confident in the information they read from Guts UK.
Support with your digestive conditions and symptoms
Guts UK has a dedicated Helpline, providing information, guidance and signposting to people affected by digestive conditions and symptoms in the UK.
Our Helpline team can help with:
- Understanding your digestive conditions or symptoms.
- Providing support and guidance around what questions to ask a healthcare professional or what to say to a GP.
- Suggesting other services that might be able to help or signposting to useful information online.
- Providing professional, publicly available information about possible treatments relating to your condition.
Our Helpline team can’t help with:
- Advice on what you should or shouldn’t do.
- Ongoing support.
- Diagnosis of a medical condition.
- Recommending specific treatments.
- Recommending or referring to an individual healthcare professional.
For more information and ways to contact our Helpline, click here.
Further information
The NHS website has extensive information on digestive conditions, including videos on digestive disorders such as ulcerative colitis or IBS. They also produce videos on symptoms such as constipation and diarrhoea, as well as videos on procedures like colonoscopies.
The British Dietetic Association also provides information about diet for some digestive conditions on their website. You might also be able to find suitable information about diet on the NHS Choices website.
