JACIE Report

* reaccreditation
 

5 additional centres were expected to be awarded accreditation by the end of June. 3 other centres have been inspected for reaccreditation and are among the 29 centres correcting deficiencies identified during inspections. The full list of accredited centres now including their effective dates is available at: www.jacie.org/portal/jacie/facilities.

If you expect to apply for accreditation, please contact the JACIE Office at: jacie@ebmt.org as this information helps us in planning for inspections over the next 12-18 months.

4th edition of the FACT-JACIE Accreditation Manual and Guidance

The Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy and the Joint Accreditation Committee ISCT-EBMT has published the Fourth Edition of the FACT-JACIE International Standards for Cellular Therapy Product Collection, Processing, and Administration for inspection and public comment for a 90-day period. Comments will be accepted from 1st July 2008, until 28th September 2008.

The Standards are used for accreditation of programs in the three phases of cellular therapy: collection, processing, and clinical care. This edition will be published on 1st November 2008 and will be effective from 29th January 2009.

The draft Standards can be viewed online at the FACT Web site at http://factwebsite.org/main.aspx?id=125. The Accreditation Manual, which provides guidance for meeting the Standards, is also available.

Comments on the Fourth Edition can be submitted to FACT via the comment form posted on the website by mail, email, or fax.

FACT Accreditation Office
986065 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-6065
Fax: (402) 559-1951
E-Mail: FACT@unmc.edu

JACIE at the EBMT Annual Meeting, 30th March -2nd April 2008, Florence

JACIE featured strongly at the EBMT Annual Meeting. Under the title “Clinical Dilemmas in JACIE Accreditation”, the JACIE Session in 2008 place the emphasis on interaction with the audience in the form of panel discussions and Question-&-Answers. The session attracted over 300 people, testimony to the continued high interest in JACIE-related topics.

We also organised a Quality Management Exploratory Meeting. The first aim of the meeting was to have an open discussion on how the profile of quality management can be raised at the EBMT annual meeting and the 140 attendees participated with suggestions and questions. The second aim was to establish a working group or committee that will develop a programme to be included in the 2009 EBMT congress in Göteborg, Sweden. The resulting feedback offered valuable suggestions for the format and content of the programme and this will be analysed by the Core Group and Network that is being established to design a programme for Göteborg focussed on quality management.

Almost 50 people expressed an interest in joining the core group and/or the network. The Core Group will consist of 5 members with the remaining applicants being included in the Network.

The Nurses JACIE Workgroup drew 150 attendees who were able to hear Mary Coussons of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital describe her team’s experience of accreditation.

Inspectors

Training

• An inspector of a Clinical Transplant Program shall hold a medical degree and be licensed to practice medicine, and have a minimum of five years of clinical blood and marrow transplant experience.
   
• An inspector of a Haematopoietic Progenitor Cell Collection Facility shall hold a medical degree or PhD and have five years experience in haematopoietic cell collection procedures, including apheresis; or, shall have five years experience as the nurse or technician supervising the collection of peripheral blood progenitor cells by apheresis.
   
• An inspector of a Cell Processing Laboratory shall hold a medical degree or PhD or a professional degree in biological sciences or medical technology, and have five years experience as a Laboratory Director, Medical Director, or Supervisor of an HCP Laboratory.

If you meet these requirements, you are invited to contact the JACIE Office at: jacie@ebmt.org.

Training courses are generally organised at national level by national societies or individual institutions. Another approach is the ‘JACIE Day’ which has been successfully organised in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Turkey and uses a more discussion-based format. If you or your national society are interested in organising a course or information day, JACIE can provide you with course format, slides, content and recommend experts. Please contact us at jacie@ebmt.org.

Eoin McGrath
JACIE Accreditation Office
 

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