Accreditation pathway
What is accreditation?
Accreditation is a supportive process of evaluating the quality of insourcing providers by guiding providers through a quality framework. Accreditation promotes quality improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging the continued development of the clinical service. Accreditation is a voluntary process for insourcing providers to engage in.
Having developed standards in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary group of endoscopy stakeholders, JAG accreditation provides a supportive pathway which involves self-assessment and quality improvement against the standards.
By participating in accreditation, insourcing providers are enrolled on an ongoing programme of service and quality improvement.
Tracking progress
Registered insourcing providers have access to the insourcing accreditation standards via a self-assessment tool. The tool allows services to review:
• which standards they meet and have evidence for
• which standards they meet but need to collate evidence for
• which standards they are not currently meeting
The tool enables insourcing providers to target their team’s improvement efforts. A downloadable action plan is available which enables providers to track and share the progress being made towards achieving JAG insourcing accreditation.
In November 2027, JAG Insourcing accreditation will launch the full accreditation pathway. In order to submit for an assessment, insourcing providers will need to provide evidence that they have met all of the JAG Insourcing accreditation standards. Once insourcing providers can fully demonstrate these requirements, an accreditation assessment will be organised to review the evidence submitted by the service. A site assessment will also take place, usually lasting one day.
A site assessment will be undertaken every 6 years. Between these assessments, there is an annual remote review of key pieces of evidence to show that the provider is maintaining the standards, this is known as the annual review.
There is an annual subscription for participating in the programme.