STANDARDS ACS
Ensuring clinical excellence Josie Winter, Clinical Operations Director of Advanced Clinical Solutions, explains how to help hospitals reach and secure clinical excellence
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tandards are a very difficult issue to tackle in the hospital sector. In the UK we are very lucky - we have one set of rules, and one set of regulations to follow. While ensuring that you are up to standard can be a long and difficult process but identifying the issues is a much simpler part of the process, thanks to institutions such as the JCI and the CQC. Yet in international markets, especially so in emerging healthcare sectors, this is often not the case. There can be multiple
versions of standards and regulations, or none at all, or frequent changes - making it a minefield for providers to get their care settings and hospitals truly up to scratch. All too often, governors can be unsure if they need to follow the JCI standards, or the UK or US standards, or their own local standards - and trying to do all of these is a sure recipe for failure if you don’t have a plan. Sometimes, it’s easier to adhere to local and national standards - lining these up with your patient needs and care, and ensuring that the clinical setting (whether it be a hospital, a clinic or a practice), truly meets
the local and regional patient need. Equally, sometimes it’s best to tackle the issue by striving for a JCI or a UK-standard hospital avoiding the issues of regional and national differences, and having a pretty concrete goal in mind. Neither of these decisions holds more merit than the other - it all depends on what your needs are. We can help you discover what these are, and realise the vision of achieving these standards. Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) is a team of highly trained healthcare professionals whoare experts in patient safety, regulatory compliance and quality improvements. Having experience in both the NHS and private healthcare organisations including a large corporate med-tech organisation, ACS has developed and delivered hundreds of clinical audits and quality improvement plans. We apply our extensive knowledge across a number of services, adopting a ‘seek first to understand’ approach to best serve our clients different demands, needs, wants 45
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