JACIE accreditation: demonstrating high quality of clinical and laboratory practice in stem cell transplantation centres

Joint Accreditation Committee of ISCT and EBMT (JACIE) is an international non-profit organisation aiming to implement across Europe a standardised accreditation system for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation centres that organise and execute their clinical and laboratory activities according to high quality standards. Since 2008, three Belgian transplantation programmes and one stand-alone facility have received a JACIE accreditation, two other programmes are actively within the accreditation process and several other centres are preparing their application. During the past years, the Belgian Hematological Society took several initiatives to support the national centres for implementation of the JACIE quality standards. Through this accreditation system, the quality level of stem cell transplantation centres becomes objectively measurable, allowing centres to demonstrate that they achieved in Europe the high level of 'excellence'.