Results of a questionnaire concerning the staffing and administration of endoscopy in England and Wales.

Axon, Anthony; Bottrill, Pat; Campbell, David

doi:10.1136/gut.28.11.1527

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“…Patients undergoing endoscopy procedures expect support and care from a competent healthcare team. The original endoscopy guidance on workforce was published in Gut in 19872; since then there have been significant developments in endoscopy techniques and the way endoscopy services are delivered in all the home nations of the UK. JAG does not state the numbers of staff required for an endoscopy unit as there are variations in the environment, procedure types and patients’ health status.…”

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UK consensus on non-medical staffing required to deliver safe, quality-assured care for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Dunkley¹,

Griffiths²,

Follows³

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Frontline Gastroenterol

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UK consensus on non-medical staffing required to deliver safe, quality-assured care for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Dunkley¹,

Griffiths²,

Follows³

et al. 2018

Frontline Gastroenterol

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Primary colonoscopy

Leicester¹

1991

Baillière's Clinical Gastroenterology

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There is good evidence that colonoscopy, in expert hands, is the most accurate investigation for the diagnosis of colorectal disease, and it also allows histological confirmation and therapeutic procedures to be carried out. Furthermore, by screening high-risk groups together with regular follow-up of patients with known colorectal neoplasia and surveillance of long-standing ulcerative colitis patients, it may be possible to reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer. However, at the present time, the lack of widespread availability and the variability in the quality of examinations precludes the employment of colonoscopy as the first-line investigation in colorectal disease. Flexible sigmoidoscopy combined with good quality double contrast barium enema is a reasonable alternative in the majority of cases, reserving colonoscopy for investigation of the elderly and high-risk patients, together with surveillance of patients with premalignant conditions. Technologically, colonoscopy has probably reached its peak and it is now necessary to make provision for more widely available colonoscopy services, provided by adequately trained endoscopists who can guarantee total colonoscopy in more than 90% of cases safely and rapidly. This requires structured training programmes for gastrointestinal physicians and surgeons and ultimately changes in patterns of working practice if adequate numbers of colonoscopy sessions capable of dealing with a steadily increasing workload are to be achieved.

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Simpkins¹

1988

Clinical Radiology

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Results of a questionnaire concerning the staffing and administration of endoscopy in England and Wales.

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UK consensus on non-medical staffing required to deliver safe, quality-assured care for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy

UK consensus on non-medical staffing required to deliver safe, quality-assured care for adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy

Primary colonoscopy

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