The ESGO Accreditation in Cervical Cancer Management recognises institutions that provide high-quality, multidisciplinary care for patients with cervical cancer, in line with established European standards.
The accreditation is based on ESGO quality indicators and a validated scoring system developed with an international expert panel. It evaluates clinical management, organisation of care, and patient outcomes.
Eligibility
To get accredited, centres must:
- Meet the criteria defined in the ESGO quality indicators for cervical cancer management.
- Achieve a score of 78+ points via the self-assessment to prove satisfactory management of patients with cervical cancer.
ESGO may perform random audits of applicants by asking for operative, procedural radiotherapy or pathology reports from selected cases in their dataset.
Application process
Applications are submitted online via REDCap.
After creating an account you will be guided through the submission process, including data entry and validation.
Information required
- A pseudo-anonymised dataset containing all referred cases of cervical cancer, including surgical and non-surgical cases in the last 3 calendar years.
- Documentation of clinical trials (NCT number and recruitment numbers overall per year, if available).
- A description of how complications are documented, and quality management is performed.
- A list of articles published on cervical cancer management by team members from your centre (for eligibility to be a Centre of Excellence).
REDCap will ask for data from the past 3 years.
Questions?
If you have any questions, you can email us at adminoffice@www.esgo.org.
Application review
- After initial reviews, the application is submitted to a jury outside the country of the applicant institution.
- The review and evaluation will be processed via the REDCap platform.
- Accreditation is valid for 5 years, subject to renewal if standards are maintained. Reminders for reaccreditation will be automatically sent from REDCap.
- If rejected, centres can resubmit an application after 1 year.
Centres of Excellence
 High-volume and high-quality centres will be automatically assessed to be a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in their accreditation type.
To qualify centres must:
- Achieve a self-assessment score of ≥78[EE3] (>80% of the maximum score).
- Publish at least 3 articles on cervical cancer authored by a member of the team over the last 3 years, including at least one article as first or last author.
Centres of Excellence contribute to ESGO’s quality assurance programme by supporting education to improve care in non-accredited centres and by complementing training for lower-volume accredited centres.