Accreditation
JAG accreditation provides a framework for the quality improvement and assurance of endoscopy services
General
- My service is accredited. When is the GRS due for submission?
- Do I need to upload evidence for the GRS?
- How do I register my service for JAG accreditation?
- What are the effects of outsourcing and insourcing on JAG accreditation?
- My service was accredited and has recently started training. Do we need to complete the training GRS?
- Can JAG accredit endoscopy services outside the UK or Ireland?
Assessment
- Does the service need to be functioning as normal during the assessment?
- When do I do the GRS or JAG census?
- When will I need to submit the annual review?
- Can mobile units be used for the delivery of bowel scope screening at a JAG accredited site?
- Can we book an assessment if we are having building works?
- Can you send me a template for a specific criteria?
Clinical quality
- Can endoscopists perform less than 100 upper GI endoscopies per year?
- Do endoscopy services need to audit the comfort levels of all patients, or only patients that have been sedated?
- Does JAG have any guidance on general anaesthetic?
- Does JAG have any guidance on safe sedation and best practice for the frequency of documenting clinical observations?
- How does JAG assess processes for sending histology reports to GPs?
- Is it a requirement for blood pressure to be checked before an endoscopy procedure?
Environment
- Can an endoscopy unit be used as an inpatients' facility?
- Can JAG review proposed building layouts and designs for endoscopy services, or provide consultancy?
- Does the gas in the recovery area need to be piped, or will portable gas suffice?
- How often should a procedure room be deep-cleaned?
- Is it mandatory to have doors on the recovery room?
- Is there a policy for the amount of air exchanges per hour and what is the ISO regulation?
Decontamination
- Where can I download the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) decontamination audit?
- 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?
Accreditation webtool
- How do I get a login to the JAG website?
- Where can I locate the PPAT?
- Where do we find the assessor comments and how do we respond?
- Criteria TR3.2 - The endoscopy service shall have policies and systems in place to ensure safe and effective supervision of trainees inside and outside of the endoscopy service. What does this mean?
- What is the Factual Accuracy (FA) process and how do I complete it?
- How do I respond to comments on the evidence?
Access and booking
- Can I remove unresponsive surveillance patients from the list?
- Does GRS measure 6.10 refer to sending reports to general practioners?
- Does GRS measure 10.9 include colonoscopy? What if this referral is received on a Friday?
- How can efficiency be improved in endoscopy services?
- What is an acceptable level for DNA rates?
- What is the expected percentage growth in endoscopy procedures each year?
Patient experience
- Can ODPs take patient consent?
- Does JAG have any guidance on transgender patients?
- Is it mandatory to provide a hearing loop system?
- Is it appropriate to ask patients and endoscopists to sign more than one copy of a consent form?
- Please can you provide some guidance with regards to the GRS measure 13.11?
- Is postal consent a valid form of consent?
Workforce
- Can endoscopy nurses remove gastronomy PEG tubes if they are not trained as first assistants?
- Why does JAG need to know the names of all staff at my service?
- Do management leads need to be healthcare professionals who have completed a recognised endoscopy course?
- Can we offer the role of training lead to a nurse endoscopist?
- How much time should clinical leads and training leads be given in their job planning?
- Does JAG mandate staffing levels?