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Endoscopy Academy of Wales

2025 – Centralised Training Programme

HEIW is pleased to announce new training dates in support of trainee endoscopists and endoscopy nurses, managers and admin and clerical staff in Wales. In 2025, these courses are to be provided at Keir Hardie Academic Centre (Merthyr Tydfil), with high quality seminar rooms and dedicated clinical laboratory space.

Endoscopist Training

The programme will aim to support the following JAG approved courses (which will be advertised via the JAG Endoscopy Training System (JETS) website). Where provisional dates have been agreed these are shown for information, but may be subject to change.

JAG Basic Upper GI course - Day 1 at Keir Hardie AC, Day 2 Royal Glamorgan Hospital

  • 5  and 6  March 2025.
  • 12  and 13  November 2025.

JAG Colonoscopy course - 2 day course hosted at Royal Glamorgan Hospital

  • 10 and 11 June 2025.

JAG Lower GI Polypectomy Skills - 1 day course at Keir Hardie AC

  • 10  July 2025.

JAG Therapeutic Upper GI course - 2 day course at Keir Hardie AC 

  • 3 and 4 November 2025.

JAG Training the Endoscopy Trainer course – 2 day course at Keir Hardie AC 

  • 4  and 5 June 2025.

 

 

Other endoscopy courses:

SPRINT – 1 day induction to endoscopy course at Keir Hardie AC (FREE to Welsh delegates)

  • 18 September 2025.

We will continue to support the successful HEIW Clinical Endoscopy Programme as well as facilitate the delivery of endoscopy nurse oriented courses as outlined below. We have multiple courses that we are offering for the first time this year including the Trans-Nasal Endoscopy course on the 20  January 2025 and an Endoscopic Non-Technical Skills course on the 4 September 2025 that would benefit all members of the endoscopy team.

Please check back to the endoscopy website as we continue to develop endoscopy education and delivery in Wales including the possibility of courses being delivered for the first time in North Wales this autumn, as well as updates on the Accelerated Training Programme currently being expanded upon in Cardiff.

Endoscopy Nurse Training

We will continue to facilitate ENDO 1 courses throughout 2025 to support foundation training against the JETS Workforce competency framework and assist units to meet the new JAG mandate within the updated JAG Accreditation Standards (2023). ENDO 1 courses will continue to be run on a regional basis within hospitals, please email heiw.endoscopy@wales.nhs.uk to request a local free of charge course.

The ENDO2 course which supports the development of skills required by endoscopy assistants during therapeutic procedures is being updated and Welsh Training Leads are working with the JAG and Training Leads from other UK Endoscopy Academies to update the course format with a view to delivering this updated ENDO 2 format during 2025. Details will be made available as soon as JAG have approved the new format.

ENDO3 courses will be available to book online via the JETS website for nurses wishing to improve their skills in management, training, and leadership. In line with JAG’s update on the ENDO3 format we will seek to host an ENDO3 course in Wales in the Autumn of 2025. Please contact us if you are interested in attending.

And finally, in 2024 we provided for the first time a training course aimed at endoscopy administrative and clerical workers which was met with overwhelmingly positive feedback. We are committed to continuing to develop this training pathway and will announce the next available course date shortly.

 

 

For any initial queries please contact the Endoscopy Academy Training team at

HEIW.Endoscopy@wales.nhs.uk and someone will respond to your query as soon as possible.