BAC Update
Board Accreditation Committee (BAC) Update
The 2015-2017 Board Accreditation Committee (BAC) had their last meeting at the ISQua conference in London in September 2017.
We would like to thank Wendy Nicklin, Canada and Janne Lehman Knudsen, Denmark who concluded their terms on the BAC at the London meeting for all their work on the BAC in this time.
A new Board Accreditation Committee (BAC) was convened following the 2017 ISQua Board elections. The new BAC members are as follows:
Cliff Hughes (Chair), Australia
Stephen Clark, Australia
BK Rana, India
Yuichi Imanaka, Japan
Carsten Engel, Denmark
They had their first meeting in November 2017 and have met six times since then and have ratified 13 sets of standards, 4 surveyor training programmes and 6 organisational awards.
Awards
Ratified by the BAC for four years from September 2017:
Standards
- Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía, Spain: Manual of Hospital Certification Standards
- Joint Commission International Accreditation, United States of America: Hospital Standards 6th Edition
- Organization of European Cancer Institutes, Belgium: Accreditation and Designation Manual
Organisations
- Australian Aged Care Quality Agency
- Australian General Practice Accreditation Ltd.
- Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clinica/Programa de Acreditação de Laboratórios Clínicos – Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology / Laboratory Medicine
Ratified by the BAC for four years from December 2017:
Standards
- Organização Nacional de Acreditação (ONA): Standards for Healthcare Service Providers
- Ministry of Health, Turkey: SAS Hospital Kit Standards
- INASanté, Tunisia: Primary Healthcare 2016 1st Edition
- Laboratory Medicine Foundation, Korea: Laboratory Standards 2017
- Egyptian Health Care Accreditation Organization, Egypt: Hospital Standards
Surveyor Training Programme
- Joint Commission Taiwan
Organisations
- Japan Council for Quality Health Care
Ratified by the BAC for four years from February 2018:
Standards
- Japan Council for Quality Health Care: Hospital Standards
- The Healthcare Accreditation Institute: Healthcare and Hospitals Standards
- Joint Commission Taiwan: Regional Hospital Standards
Organisation
- The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
Ratified by the BAC for four years from March 2018:
Standards
- Autoritatea Naţională de Management al Calităţii în Sănătate/Romanian National Authority of Quality Management in Healthcare: Hospital Accreditation Standards, Version 2
Ratified by the BAC for four years from May 2018:
Standards
- College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Canada: Diagnostic Laboratory Standards
Ratified by the BAC for four years from July 2018:
Surveyor Training Programme
- National Health Systems Resource Centre, India
Orgnisations
- American Accreditation Commission International, United States of America
- Health Care Accreditation Council, Jordan
- Canadian Accreditation Council
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Norway
Ratified by the BAC for four years from August 2018:
Standards
- Joint Commission International Accreditation, United States of America: Primary Care Standards
- Quality Innovation Performance, Australia: QIC Health and Community Service Standards, 7th Edition
- Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucía, Spain: Clinical Management Unit (UGC) Manual (ME 5 01_07)
Surveyor Training Programmes
- Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited
- Saudi Central Board For Accreditation of Healthcare Institution
Our sincere congratulations to all these organisations. If you would like to view the list of our accredited Organisations, Standards and Surveyor Training Programmes, please visit the IAP Award page on our website: https://isqua.org/accreditation-iap/Accredited-by-ISQua