Endoscopy service achieves accreditation success

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is delighted to have its accreditation from the Royal College of Physicians’ Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG) renewed for another year.

The JAG accreditation provides independent and impartial recognition that a gastrointestinal endoscopy service demonstrates the highest standards of best practice in endoscopy. It was awarded to the Trust for its high-quality services at all three of its hospital sites after a significant and in-depth annual review.

Over the past 12 months a multi-disciplinary team across the whole of the endoscopy service and the division of surgery has worked hard to ensure that all the standards of the accreditation continued to be met and the evidence for the review submitted ahead of time.

Brent Kilmurray, Chief Executive at the Trust said: “I’d like to thank all the teams who were involved in helping us to retain this accreditation for another year. It’s fantastic news for the service and our patients, who can be assured that they are receiving a high level of care. I know the team is continuing to look at how the service can be improved further still across the Trust to provide an even better service for our patients.”

This renewed accreditation comes just over a year after the Trust became the West Yorkshire Regional Training Centre (RTC) for Endoscopy.

Part of the Yorkshire Endoscopy Training Academy, the RTC was implemented to improve the access to endoscopy training for gastroenterologists, surgeons and clinical endoscopists throughout East, West and South Yorkshire.