NED governance report 2025
Providing an insight into the data governance and work on the National Endoscopy Database
The National Endoscopy Database (NED) team have released an annual governance review, providing reassurance on data quality and use of data. Overseen by NED clinical lead, Dr David Beaton, the report encompasses four key domains: data completeness and quality, upload completeness, accuracy of endoscopist identifiers, and site classification with upload coverage. The report looked at a full years of data from 2025.
Key findings and achievements:
The National Endoscopy Database (NED) captured 99.8% of procedures compared with local endoscopy reporting systems (ERS), demonstrating excellent upload completeness
During 2025, 96.3% of UK endoscopy services registered with the Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG) uploaded data to NED
Endoscopists with valid registered professional body identifiers (General Medical Council (GMC) or Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)) were associated with 97.9% of procedures
By the end of 2025, 87.6% of services had migrated to NEDi2.1, improving data capture and quality
Overall data quality was high, with excellent completeness across core quality metrics. A small number of ERS-specific issues were identified, most notably affecting ERCP uploads.
The report demonstrates the ongoing work undertaken to maintain and improve data quality, summarises key findings and resulting actions, and provides assurance to users that NED data are robust and reliable for service evaluation, endoscopist quality assurance, audit and research. As a first report of its kind for the National Endoscopy Database, it provides a framework to support the continued improvement of national endoscopy data collection.
"Looking ahead, NED has huge potential to become an even richer resource for understanding and improving endoscopy. Continued improvements in data quality, wider adoption of NEDi2.1, and learning from the data collected will help shape future developments in NED, research projects and priorities for quality improvement, ensuring that NED evolves in response to the needs of everyone working to improve endoscopy."
Professor Nigel Trudgill, NED Chair