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

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