P71 A national survey of safety across UK endoscopy services

IntroductionThe ‘Improving Safety and Reducing Error in Endoscopy’ (ISREE) strategy has highlighted the need to improve our understanding of factors related to safety across UK endoscopy. This study assesses aspects of safety that were included in the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal endoscopy (JAG) biennial census of services.MethodsAn expert panel devised questions across 7 themes that complemented JAG safety domains. These were incorporated into the census of UK JAG-registered services in April 2019. Census results were collated and analysed. Categorical data was analysed through Chi square, Fisher’s Exact, Kruskal Wallis and Friedman’s tests. Free text responses were analysed thematically.ResultsThe response rate was 68.4%. Across March 2019, a total of 1535 patient safety incidents (PSIs) were reported (per service mean 4.80, SD 11.87). There was a significant difference in reporting dependent on incident type (p