patients, commonly with respect to anticipation of pain or the results of the procedure. The ranked preference scores suggested that interaction with the endoscopist, including technical skill of the endoscopist, discomfort during the procedure, manner of the endoscopist and the pre-and post procedure discussions were considered as most important to patients. A majority of patients (55%) preferred the endoscopist to explain the findings, but only 26% specified that they needed to explain the

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... cedure itself. Environmental factors were considered of relatively low importance, including the single sex environment (least important), noise levels, explanation of delay, privacy and intra department waiting time. A majority (82.1%) thought that having a single sex environment was minimally/not important, and only 14.3% of patients were prepared to have a delayed appointment for a single sex environment. Conclusion Patients undergoing colonoscopy appear to highly prioritise aspects of care relating to the interaction with the endoscopist and the procedure itself. Environment factors are considered to have much less value and specifically having a single sex environment. These findings may assist in service redesign around patient-centred care and patients priorities, and the development of patient satisfaction surveys in endoscopy.