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50 centres are now accredited. Additionally, three centres have been inspected for reaccreditation and 25 other centres are 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.
3rd edition of the FACT-JACIE Accreditation Manual and Guidance
The 3rd edition of the Manual was released in December 2007 and is available for download from here.
Work on the 4th edition of the FACT-JACIE Standards has commenced and release is anticipated for the end of 2008. FACT and JACIE representatives met in San Diego in February at the BMT Tandem Meeting to discuss the draft text before it is released for public consultation. Further details of this process will be available on the JACIE web site as soon as the consultation phase opens.
JACIE at the EBMT Annual Meeting, March 30-April 2, 2008, Florence.
JACIE will feature strongly at the EBMT Annual Meeting. Under the title “Clinical Dilemmas in JACIE Accreditation”, the JACIE Session in 2008 will place the emphasis on interaction with the audience in the form of panel discussions and Question-&-Answers. This is an ideal opportunity to raise issues or ask questions to the experts. The JACIE Session will take place on 31st March in Hall H from 12:30-13:30.
There will also be a Quality Management Exploratory Meeting. The first aim of the meeting is to have an open discussion on how the profile of quality management can be raised at the EBMT annual meeting. The second aim is to establish a working group or committee that will develop a programme to be included in the 2009 EBMT congress in Göteborg, Sweden.
Anyone with an interest in quality management is welcome to attend but we would hope to see good participation by quality managers, including ‘unofficial’ quality managers. This Exploratory Meeting will take place on 31st March in Hall H from 10:30-12:30. |
Inspectors
A half-day inspector refresher course will be held at the EBMT Meeting in Florence. The course is aimed at updating inspectors on developments in the Standards, providing guidance on specific issues that arise during inspections and getting feedback from the participants on their experiences and suggestions for improvements. There a still a number of places available on this refresher course. If you are a interested in attending this course please contact the JACIE Office.
Training
We are planning for courses in 2008 and hope to run a Centre Preparation Course on 23rd-24th June, 2008 with Athens, Greece as the likely location. The course is aimed at giving centres a good base for preparing themselves for accreditation and is highly valued by participants from previous courses. However, in order to establish that there is sufficient demand for places before the course can proceed, we are running pre-registration. Anyone interested is invited to contact the JACIE Office as soon as possible. The cost of the course is anticipated to be approximately €900. This fee will cover course registration, course material and catering.
An Inspector Training Course is provisionally anticipated for 18th-19th September, 2008. Similar to above, we will carry out pre-registration before the summer to ensure that there are sufficient participants. Details will be available from JACIE National Representatives and on the JACIE web site. Anyone interested should note the minimum experience requirements as described below:
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An inspector of a Clinical Transplant Programme 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. |
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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. |
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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.
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.
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