Accreditation
JAG accreditation provides a framework for the quality improvement and assurance of endoscopy services
Workforce
Quality and Safety
General
- What are the effects of outsourcing and insourcing on JAG accreditation?
- Does my service need to have a scope or image guide to aid colonoscopy?
- How often is the database of accredited services updated?
- How long will it take a service to become accredited?
- Is JAG accreditation transferable?
- What is my service's Best Practice Tariff status?
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
- Can my unit be accredited if an external person supports our decontamination team?
- Is it okay to use Infacol through the biopsy channel in an Endogator pump?
- Does JAG have any guidance on centralised decontamination?
- In the event of decontamination equipment being out of service for a number of days. Do the centres where endoscopes are sent for reprocessing need to be JAG Accredited?
- Our plan is to move to a pass through washer and the vacuum pack system, is this sufficient to fulfil JAG criteria or do we still need a drying cabinet?
- Should the 3 hour rule be taken from the disinfection time of the scope or from the time the scope is removed from the AER?
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?