The increasing success of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) means Trusts are under pressure to provide an increasing number of colonoscopies year on year, without compromising quality.
Colonoscopy is the gold standard for early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC) and delivering quality in colonoscopy is vital to ensure all procedures are safe and effective, but what does this look like in practice? Quality indicators from the NHS BCSP include: safe sedation and comfort, caecal intubation rate, withdrawal time and adverse events. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) is also an important quality marker of colonoscopy as higher ADR detection leads to reduced interval cancers. To find out how PENTAX MEDICAL can help provide support in achieving the key pillars to deliver Quality in Colonoscopy, and to try the new innovative G-EYE - a product which can increase adenoma detection rate by 56%, visit the PENTAX MEDICAL stand.
