Following the 2008 Darzi Report, High Quality Care for All, NICE has been tasked with developing independent, evidence-based standards for the NHS. These NICE quality standards will act as a final distillation of clinical best practice and will clarify what high quality care looks like in relation to clinical effectiveness, patient safety and patient experience.
Derived from the best available evidence, and produced collaboratively with the NHS and social care, the standards will provide a set of specific concise quality statements that act as markers of high quality, cost effective care across a pathway or clinical area.
NICE quality standards are intended to provide a clear description of what a high quality service would look like, enabling organisations to improve quality and achieve excellence. The standards will bring clarity to matters of quality by providing patients and the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high quality care. They will have the potential to be harnessed for a range of different uses both locally and nationally.
NICE Quality Standards are currently being developed for Stroke, Dementia, VTE Prevention and Neonatal Care and we estimate publication in April 2010. A consultation period for the first draft on stroke and dementia standards will run from 30th November 2009 to 4th January 2010. Individuals and organisations with an interest in these areas are invited to comment on the provisional standards via the NICE website:
http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/qualitystandards/qualitystandards.jsp. We are also keen to test the practical aspects of the statements of quality and measures in the field: how implementable they are, the validity of their content and whether there may be any unforeseen consequences as a result of putting them into practice. Details of how you can get involved in Field Testing are also available on the NICE website.
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Derived from the best available evidence, and produced collaboratively with the NHS and social care, the standards will provide a set of specific concise quality statements that act as markers of high quality, cost effective care across a pathway or clinical area.
NICE quality standards are intended to provide a clear description of what a high quality service would look like, enabling organisations to improve quality and achieve excellence. The standards will bring clarity to matters of quality by providing patients and the public, health and social care professionals, commissioners and service providers with definitions of high quality care. They will have the potential to be harnessed for a range of different uses both locally and nationally.
NICE Quality Standards are currently being developed for Stroke, Dementia, VTE Prevention and Neonatal Care and we estimate publication in April 2010. A consultation period for the first draft on stroke and dementia standards will run from 30th November 2009 to 4th January 2010. Individuals and organisations with an interest in these areas are invited to comment on the provisional standards via the NICE website:
http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/qualitystandards/qualitystandards.jsp. We are also keen to test the practical aspects of the statements of quality and measures in the field: how implementable they are, the validity of their content and whether there may be any unforeseen consequences as a result of putting them into practice. Details of how you can get involved in Field Testing are also available on the NICE website.
So what is The CQC there for then?
Angus Dei on all and sundry
AnglishLit
Angus Dei politico
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