Quality Improvement Resources
Accreditation and Quality Improvement
- Health and Social Care Accreditation Forum (HaSCAF)
- International Society for Quality in Healthcare
- Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
- NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub
Other Accreditation and Peer Review Schemes
- Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Peer Review Scheme
- Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy
- Improving Quality In Physiological diagnostic Service (IQIPS)
- Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service (SEQHOS)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)
- Clinical Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd
External resources
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2007). How to change practice. Understand, identify and overcome barriers to change. London: NICE
- Øvretveit J (2009). Does improving quality save money? A review of evidence of which improvements to quality reduce costs to health service providers. London: the Health Foundation
- Dixon-Woods, M; McNicol, S; Martin, G (2012). Overcoming challenges to improving quality. Lessons from the Health Foundation’s improvement programme evaluations and relevant literature. London: the Health Foundation
- Jeremy Hurst and Sally Williams (2012). Can NHS hospitals do more with less? London: Nuffield Trust
- Helen MacArthur, Ceri Phillips, Helen Simpson et al (2012). White Paper 8: Improving quality reduces costs- quality as the business strategy. Cardiff: 1000 Lives Plus
- Presentation by Dr D Murray, NELA Clinical Lead