Table 1

Demographics of stakeholders

Participants characteristics	Registered participants (n=238)			Consensus meeting (n=47)
Participants characteristics	Clinicians	Patients	Total	Clinicians	Patients	Total
Gender
Male	108	18	126	23	2	25
Female	45	65	110	10	12	22
Did not answer	2	0	2	0	0	0
Region
Northern England	37	18	55	8	2	10
Midland	22	8	30	5	1	6
Southeast England	58	33	91	13	9	22
Southwest England	20	8	28	3	2	5
Wales	6	6	12	1	0	1
Scotland	7	6	13	1	0	1
Northern Ireland	2	3	5	2	0	2
Did not answer	3	1	4	0	0	0
Type of hospital
DGH	56	64	120	10	7	17
Tertiary unit	97	17	114	23	7	30
Private		1	1	0	0	0
Other		1	1	0	0	0
Did not answer	2	0	0	0	0	0
Other clinicians characteristics
Length of consultant appointment (years)
0–5	46			8
6–10	34			4
11–20	53			16
>20	20			5
Other patient characteristics
*Age (years)*
20–29		32			3
30–39		27			4
40–49		17			5
50–59		5			2
Years with Crohn’s disease (years)
0–5		25			4
6–10		19			2
11–20		24			6
>20		15			2
Years with anal fistula (years)
0–5		52			2
6–10		18			8
11–20		11			2
>20		1			0
Did not answer					2
Fistula status
First anal fistula		24			2
Previously healed anal fistula, now new fistula		12			2
Recurrent anal fistula		32			4
Fistula healed following intervention		12			1
Did not answer		0			5