The review process to produce the 6th edition of the FACT-JACIE Standards will commence in mid-June 2013 when JACIE and FACT will hold a kick-off meeting in London for the Committee chairs and co-chairs.

An important part of this process is to get feedback from users of the Standards - centres, inspectors and anyone else that works with the Standards. We have created an on-line questionnaire to collect your feedback based on the idea of 'Top-10' - the 10 standards from each Part that you consider need to be revised or that you think are unnecessary.
The deadline for responses is 3 June 2013. Find out more about the survey by clicking here.

Documents should be in the language of the centre since JACIE would expect to assign inspectors that speak and understand the language. However, there may be exceptions to this:

• Centre is located in a country where no inspectors are available
• JACIE may not have inspectors anywhere that speak the centre’s language
• The transplant community in a given country has requested that only external inspectors be assigned to avoid conflicts of interest

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The second edition of the Quality Management Guide has been released. This edition has been revised to include references to the 5th edition of the Standards.
The Guide can be accessed from the Document Centre > Guides.

We have already started to upload in PDF format presentations from speakers at the EBMT QM Meeting with over half already online. Please check here for updates.

The next JACIE Inspector Training Course will take place on 3-4 October 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.

If you are interested in attending please consult the criteria to be an inspector here. For further information, contact the JACIE Office at jacie@ebmt.org.

There are many providers and companies offering consultancy services for implementing quality management in healthcare. Many offer preparation for JACIE accreditation among their services. These providers offer their services usually in return for a fee paid by the hospital.

While it is recognised that such providers often perform valuable services and enable transplant programmes to prepare themselves for accreditation, it should be noted that neither JACIE nor EBMT endorse individual providers. Any organisation that is considering using such services should inform itself fully about providers' capacity, knowledge and experience in the same way as it would assess any other service.

The International NetCord Foundation (NetCord) and the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) are currently drafting the fifth edition of the NetCord-FACT International Standards for Cord Blood Collection, Banking, and Release for Administration for publication on July 1, 2013, with an effective date of September 29, 2013.

We have created an online exam for use by anyone to test their knowledge of the Standards. There is one exam for each part - Clinical, Collection and Processing -  and the questions are True/False or multiple-choice style.
The exam could also be used by teams to help build awareness of what is required by the standards. The system will give the participants a score and point out the correct answers helping to understand the standards better.

Participating in the open exam is entirely optional and does not lead to any award from JACIE nor form part of the accreditation process nor qualify a person as a JACIE inspector.

Access the exams at  www.jacie.org/home/standards-exam

In 2009, the Infectious Diseases Working Party of EBMT with other international bodies introduced updated guidelines for infection prevention in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation setting. The prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) is one of the key components of these guidelines. The central venous catheter infection prevention bundle consists of hand hygiene, full barrier precautions, cleaning the insertion site with chlorhexidine, avoiding femoral sites for insertion, and removing unnecessary catheters.

So far the implementation of those measures has not been studied in EBMT centres and there is a need to assess how the guidelines for CLABSI prevention are implemented in European HSCT centres and if the implementation of those guidelines has influence on survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
More information on this survey is available at www.ebmt.org.

We have recently changed our application procedure so that centres that have already been accredited at least once do not need to send their completed Inspection Checklist along with their application form. The Checklist can be submitted along with the other pre-inspection documentation.

First-time applications still have to send their completed checklist in order to have their application considered.