Clinical service accreditation - statement of intent

Clinical service accreditation - statement of intent
BSI, HQIP, UKAS October 2019

• BSI, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) have published a statement setting out a shared intent to improve clinical services through accreditation. 
• Their statement outlines their commitment to working together to:
• improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare by providing clinical services with an infrastructure and a set of requirements that enables a structured approach to quality improvement against which they can be assessed
• encourage further development of certification schemes in clinical services and to have the providers of those schemes accredited against national standard
• integrate these initiatives with regulatory bodies (such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and other inspection and improvement processes so that commissioners, service providers and service users have a mechanism that supports quality improvement and provides assurance.

Accounting for the quality of NHS output

Accounting for the quality of NHS output
CHE University of York, 6 April 2018

• This review provides the conceptual framework needed to select potentially appropriate characteristics of healthcare outputs to be included in a measure of NHS output. 
• Three published sets of criteria developed by national bodies responsible for assessing healthcare system performance and opinions of UK experts were used to build a set of criterion which were tested against NHS Outcomes Framework indicators and NHS Thermometer indicators. A maximum of 17 indicators were short-listed for potential use as quality adjustors for NHS output, all of which are NHS Outcomes Framework indicators.