Accreditation
JAG accreditation provides a framework for the quality improvement and assurance of endoscopy services
Workforce
Quality and Safety
General
- How do I register my service for JAG accreditation?
- What are the effects of outsourcing and insourcing on JAG accreditation?
- Is postal consent appropriate for EMR patients? If so, do they require medical consent or can a trained nurse confirm this?
- Does JAG provide guidance on the number of endoscopes required by an endoscopy service?
- Does JAG provide guidance on eGFR bloods for colonsocopy patients?
- Is postal consent a valid form of consent?
Assessment
- Does the service need to be functioning as normal during the assessment?
- When can I book a JAG assessment?
- Can you send me a template for a specific criteria?
- Does JAG have any guidance on general anaesthetic?
- How can I find out when our next assessment is due?
- How do I request an assessment?
Decontamination
- The decontamination of endoscopes for my service is undertaken off-site. Do I still need to provide an IHEEM report?
- My decontamination facility has just opened - do we need to provide an IHEEM report?
- Should our decontamination lead be accountable to the theatre manager or an executive board member?
- Can my unit be accredited if an external person supports our decontamination team?
- Can Infacol be used through the biopsy channel in an Endogator pump?
- Does JAG have any guidance on centralised decontamination?
Accreditation webtool
- Webtool dashboard for endoscopy services
- How do I obtain a login to the JAG website?
- What is the Factual Accuracy (FA) process and how do I complete it?
- How do I respond to comments on the evidence?
- How do I upload evidence?
- How do I complete the conflict of interest for my JAG visit.
Environment
Waiting times
- My trust is on the border of England and Wales. What wait times should my service adhere to, given we have both English and Welsh patients?
- Do planned elective therapeutic endoscopic procedures such as EMR or HALO still fit 6 week JAG targets given completion of diagnostic endoscopy within schedule?