Practice 3.5 Facilitate self assessment and continuous improvement of services

Examples of notable practice:

Annual health check

The core standards assessment, which forms part of the Healthcare Commission’s new annual health check, requires each trust to provide a self-declaration of the extent to which they are meeting the core standards.
www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/AnnualHealthCheck (New window)

Ongoing Quality Monitoring and Enhancement

In 2005, the South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority (SWP SHA) undertook a pilot of an access database that collected, analysed and reported information gathered through Ongoing Quality Monitoring and Enhancement of healthcare education. The following article, taken from the eleventh edition of QA News for healthcare education, provides details of this pilot exercise
QA News\'Supporting Ongoing Quality Monitoring and Enhancement of healthcare education\' (pdf 30kb)