Whether you’re a unit manager, clinical lead, trainee or consultant, NED is an extremely beneficial resource.
Benefits:
- NED reduces the burden on services by providing an efficient and cost-effective solution to carrying out audits and performance reviews. As NED seamlessly automates real time capture of clinical data directly from a unit’s ERS, virtually no resource is required from individual services to maintain and update the database
- By auditing KPI’s against nationally set standards, NED provides endoscopists with the feedback they need to improve their own individual performance
- NED is an exemplar project of a learning health system. NED will provide high quality, benchmarked endoscopy performance reports, allowing endoscopists, providers and commissioners to identify potential issues rapidly, permitting support to improve healthcare quality
NEDi2
NEDi2 captures a wider dataset for OGD, Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy as well as extra procedure types including ERCP, EUS and enteroscopy. The dataset will support audit and KPI reporting in line with recent BSG and ESGE guidance on quality assurance of upper GI endoscopy, ERCP and EUS. A broader range of colonoscopy metrics is also supported. The NEDi2 dataset was developed following extensive consultation with the UK endoscopy community and ERS manufacturers.
NED upload process
Data is extracted from a service's local Endoscopy reporting system (ERS). Reports sent are already anonymised, and only include a patient's age and gender, removing the need to anonymise data on NED. Consequently, it will not be necessary to seek the patient's consent. Any reports sent via live compliant software will also be recorded into JETS, meaning double procedure entry is not needed for trainees on the certification pathways. An updated list of ERS' that are currently compliant and using live software versions, along with criteria to maintain this status, can be found on the NED website.
