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17 September 2020

Celebrating World Patient Safety Day from the JAG perspective
The challenges faced by health workers has been in the spotlight in recent months, with due recognition of the stressful environments they often work in. Much evidence exists highlighting that… Read more...

27 August 2020

How to improve your vetting processes and surveillance in COVID-19 era
Dr Roland Valori is a consultant gastroenterologist in Gloucester and the colorectal cancer lead for NCRAS (National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service). We spoke to Dr Valori about the changes… Read more...

17 August 2020

Become our new nurse lead
JAG Endoscopy has an exciting opportunity to become our new nurse lead, providing forward-thinking and expert leadership to JAG on endoscopy workforce, facilities and decontamination matters. You’ll be an innovative… Read more...

27 July 2020

Hinchingbrooke endoscopy– a positive approach to COVID-19 and how £64000 can make a change
In these unexpected, unprecedented times due to COVID-19, Hinchingbrooke have showed how you can rise above challenges with teamwork and a positive perspective to ensure patients are put first. Hinchingbrooke… Read more...

3 July 2020

Opinion piece: a 'New Dawn' or 'Back to the Past?'
By Dr Chris Healey, JAG accreditation chair and Consultant Gastroenterologist, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable negative effect on UK endoscopy services and has significantly… Read more...

25 June 2020

National census of UK endoscopy services in 2019
The 2017 Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal (GI) Endoscopy (JAG) census highlighted the pressure endoscopy services were under in meeting national targets and the factors behind this. In 2019, JAG… Read more...

19 June 2020

The super endoscopy team: how eight endoscopy units across Cheshire and Merseyside came together to form an endoscopy network
Cheshire and Merseyside endoscopy network is a group of eight endoscopy services across 12 sites, led by Dr Neil Haslam and Dr Ash Bassi. This new network aims to standardise… Read more...

16 June 2020

JAG welcomes new BCS accreditation chair
JAG gives a warm welcome to the new Chair of the Bowel Cancer Screening Accreditation panel, Dr Richard Robinson. Richard is the Clinical Director of the University of Leicester Hospitals… Read more...

3 June 2020

Capsule endoscopy certification standards and criteria
We would like to invite feedback on a proposed set of standards and criteria for capsule endoscopy certification which can be found here. Please provide your feedback via email to… Read more...

13 May 2020

Guidance on the endoscopy environment published
JAG has released new guidance to assist endoscopy services to adapt their environment following the COVID-19 pandemic. Restoration of services will vary significantly and so this guidance provides practical points for… Read more...

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