Clinical Service Accreditation

Clinical Service Accreditation (CSA) is not currently supported by HQIP. 

Find below a range of historic resources related to CSA:

The following resources provide professional bodies, CEOs, managers and clinical leaders with a framework for setting up and managing clinical accreditation schemes. Click on the links below to find out more:

1. Development of standards for clinical service accreditation schemes
2. Sharing and improving accreditation methodologies
3. How to map clinical services into groupings for the development of accreditation schemes
4. PAS 1616  – A generic framework of standards for accrediting clinical services from the British Standards Institute 
5. Information management, data, and systems
6. Support for development of accreditation schemes.

These resources were produced with British Standards Institute, United Kingdom Accreditation Service and the Royal College of Physicians on behalf of the Clinical Service Accreditation Alliance (CSAA).

More information

Watch our video to find out more about using clinical service accreditation to improve clinical care:

Who benefits from clinical service accreditation?

We’ve created a range of visuals to explain the extent of clinical service accreditation benefits across the health economy.

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• Accreditation works for those who receive care
• Accreditation works for those who deliver care
• Accreditation works for those who govern care
• Accreditation works for those who commission care
• Accreditation works for those who regulate care
• Accreditation works for those who develop health policy

Research and publications 

We’ve collated some resources relating to accreditation research including in other health systems. Please contact us if you are aware of resources that could be included for the benefit of the clinical service accreditation community in the United Kingdom.

• Accreditation as a driver of improvement and knowledge transfer
  This webinar from the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) sets out to examine some challenges that may prevent us from getting the most out of accreditation; what impact we can expect from accreditation and what the evidence is for this.
• Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe: characteristics, effectiveness and implementation of different strategies
  This WHO Observatory publications includes a chapter on External institutional strategies: accreditation, certification, supervision includes a recent review of evidence for external assessment in general.
• Development of the European quality assurance scheme for breast cancer services
• Effect of certification and accreditation of hospitals in Norway
  Please note this is a multilingual document – scroll down for the English language version.