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.
