LAUSR

Bearing in mind that enhanced vetting and triage by senior clinicians and the rapid roll-out of new ways of working (eg, risk stratification tools, faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and Cytosponge), almost certainly removed significant numbers of low risk patients from waiting lists, overall demand management may in fact have been even closer to prepandemic levels. [...]there was no patient involvement and so it cannot tell us about patient experience of endoscopy, an essential metric of a high-quality service. There are other data sources relevant to endoscopy, with which JAG censuses could triangulate, for example, Hospital Episode Statistics, the National Endoscopy Database, the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and the Getting it Right First Time programme to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the performance of endoscopy services.