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County of Sonderjylland
Denmark
Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Instituto da Qualidade
em Saude
Portugal
Netcare
Healthcare Holdings, South Africa
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The
International Programme
Accreditation
Programme
The
Health Quality Service offers a unique quality improvement
process designed specifically for the health service
of the country in which we are working. This can be
applied to both public and private hospitals/health
care organisations.
The accreditation programme consists of a set
of standards that cover all aspects of health care provision,
together with an organisational development and assessment
process leading to external peer review and an award
of accreditation. Although each programme is tailored
to a specific service, the overall process is similar.
(Click here to
visit our Audit page and click
here to see example standards from our international
standards).
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Helen
Crisp
Director of Development
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The
programme incorporate relevant features of quality programmes
from other sectors such as EFQM and ISO9001:2000. The
standards are based on the UK programmes but are customised
to reflect local requirements including organisational
structures, service configurations, laws, culture and
practices.
The
options include:
- implementation
for individual services or departments,
or by a whole organisation
- focus
on specific issues such as clinical governance or
risk management to suit the clients' needs
- working
solely on a developmental basis, towards HQS accreditation
or joint HQS accreditation and ISO certification
Programmes
are available for:
- Acute
hospitals
- Primary
Care
- Adult
mental health services
- Child
and adolescent mental health services
- Learning
disability services
- Hospice
& palliative care services
- Nursing
and residential care homes
- Cruise
Ships
Consultancy
and training services
HQS
has:
- Advised
health ministry staff in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Portugal
- Run
training programmes on standards development, quality
management systems, training for peer reviewers
- Assisted
in the development of healthcare accreditation programmes
in Portugal and Bosnia-Herzogovina
If you would like further information about the international
programmes contact: Helen
Crisp
Director of Development, email: hcrisp@hqs.org.uk
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