Post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer: patients can be reassured that UK endoscopy is already engaged in quality assessment and continual improvement

Burr and colleagues suggest that quality improvement is needed to reduce variation in colonoscopy performance, as measured by post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC).1 This inter-hospital variation in colonoscopy quality has been known to UK gastroenterology since being shared by Roland Valori during the 2014 British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) annual meeting. The importance of ensuring that colonoscopy does find bowel cancer consistently …