This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...
This publication consists of organisational standards and criteria for primary health care service providers which have been revised to reflect changes in general practice since the previous edition of this publication in 1994.
The publication of this manual of organisational standards is a major milestone for King's Fund Organisational Audit (KFOA) in that it brings together standards for acute hospitals, and the newly developed standards for community, learning disabilities and mental health services. This reflects the changing nature of health care organisations and ...
This manual contains organisational standards for primary health care commissioning. It forms one part of the King's Fund Organisational Audit project for health authorities and primary health care commissioners. The standards apply to all primary care commissioning organisations, whether these are GP fundholding practices, multi funds or non-fundholding practices that ...
At the beginning of 1995 King's Fund Organisational Audit set up a project to develop organisational audit for health service commissioning. Six health authorities and five primary care organisations agreed to become pilots for the newly developed process. This report presents the results of the evaluation process, including the findings ...
These standards and criteria provide nursing homes with the means to evaluate practice and to stimulate development. They provide staff with an opportunity to question what they do, why they do it and whether it could be done better. These standards have been refined by the King's Fund Organisational Audit ...
This manual has been produced to meet the demand for the development of standards and a peer review process for commissioning organisations. It provides an organisation with the means to question practice and to stimulate development work. It has been introduced at a time when health authorities and family health ...
This is the third edition of the Organisational Audit manual. Since 1990 several individual sections of the manual have been revised in order to ensure that the standards remain at the forefront of good practice as well as to reflect the significant changes which have taken place in the organisational ...
This booklet has guidelines which provide advice and suggestions for the primary health care team which is being surveyed by the King's Fund Organisational Audit. It begins with advice on how to set up a steering group, outlining the roles and responsibilities of that group. It is followed by a ...