Upper GI endoscopy service
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective upper GI endoscopy service.
This commissioning guide should be read in conjunction with the following NICE guidance:
- NICE clinical guideline CG17 ´Managing dyspepsia in adults in primary care´
- NICE clinical guideline CG27 ´Referral guidelines for suspected cancer´.
The clinical guidelines cover clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpin the content of this guide.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning an upper GI endoscopy service
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
The full text of this commissioning guide can be downloaded or accessed from the navigation menu on the right hand side of the screen. Download the openly available commissioning and benchmarking tool, there is no need to register.
We are keen to improve the commissioning guides in order to better meet the needs of commissioners. Please send us your ideas for future guides or other comments.
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This page was last updated: 04 January 2011
- Upper GI endoscopy services
- Commissioning an upper GI endoscopy service
- Specifying an upper GI endoscopy service
- Determining local service levels for an upper GI endoscopy service
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
