Region | No of respondents | % of total responses | Certification | OGD | Colonoscopy | ERCP | FS |
East of England | 11 | 8.5 | Full | 59 | 16 | 0 | 21 |
Kent, Surrey and Sussex | 4 | 3.1 | Provisional | 3 | 22 | 1 | 5 |
London | 20 | 15.5 | In training | 45 | 54 | 13 | 44 |
North East/Cumbria | 16 | 12.4 | Not training | 14 | 25 | 91 | 23 |
North West | 11 | 8.5 | No response | 8 | 12 | 24 | 36 |
Oxford | 6 | 4.7 | |||||
Peninsula | 7 | 5.4 | OGD | 0–100 | 33 | ||
Scotland | 10 | 7.8 | 100–200 | 24 | |||
Severn | 11 | 8.5 | >200 | 62 | |||
Wales | 7 | 5.4 | No response | 10 | |||
Wessex | 8 | 6.2 | Colonoscopy | 0–100 | 53 | ||
West midlands | 11 | 8.5 | 100–200 | 15 | |||
Yorkshire | 7 | 5.4 | >200 | 42 | |||
Flexible training | NA | 19 | |||||
Yes | 16 | 12.4 | ERCP | 0–100 | 70 | ||
No | 113 | 87.6 | 100–200 | 3 | |||
Training discipline/level | >200 | 1 | |||||
Clinical endoscopist | 6 | 4.7 | NA | 53 | |||
Trainee clinical endoscopist | 9 | 7 | Flexi Sig | 0–100 | 54 | ||
Accelerated course clinical endoscopist | 15 | 11.6 | 100–200 | 15 | |||
Gastroenterology trainees | >200 | 16 | |||||
ST3 | 12 | 9.3 | NA | 44 | |||
ST4 | 6 | 4.7 | Polypectomy | 0–100 | 80 | ||
ST5 | 11 | 8.5 | 100–200 | 7 | |||
ST6 | 11 | 8.5 | >200 | 7 | |||
ST7 | 2 | 1.6 | NA | 35 | |||
Research fellow | 11 | 9.6 | |||||
Surgical trainees | |||||||
ST3 | 3 | 2.3 | |||||
ST4 | 5 | 3.9 | |||||
ST5 | 8 | 6.2 | |||||
ST6 | 3 | 2.3 | |||||
ST7 | 6 | 4.7 | |||||
ST8+ | 10 | 7.8 | |||||
Other* | 11 | 8.5 |
*Other includes: post-CCT or research fellows, locally appointed specialty doctor in gastroenterology or surgery, independent endoscopist with experience outside the UK.
CCT, certification of completion of training; ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; FS, flexible sigmoidoscopy; NA, not answered; OGD, oesophagogastroduodenoscopy; ST, specialty trainee.