JAG has reviewed the current guidance regarding the quality and safety standards for services in the UK. The updated guidance for 2022-2024 can be found here. This document supersedes the 2019 guidance.

 This update is necessary for several reasons:

• To reflect recent changes to the JAG quality and safety standards. As part of the 2021 revision, quality and safety standards were absorbed back into the GRS

• To provide greater clarity to JAG assessors and services preparing for accreditation

• To reflect the introduction of systematic identification of PCCRC in some regions

• To reflect the widespread adoption of the National Endoscopy Database (NED) and increasing use of the updated NEDi2. 

The core part of this guidance must be followed to achieve JAG accreditation. JAG expects all accredited services in the UK to upload data to NED.