NABH
About the NABH accreditation..
National accreditation Board for Hospital & Healthcare Provides (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India (QAI) to set up guidelines for hospitals & healthcare providers for quality healthcare services.
Why it is important for hospital..
- Usually, a hospital is certified by local authority and no standard model is followed for quality healthcare services.
- Also, infrastructure & man power of many hospitals is not up to the mark. Which lower down the quality of healthcare service in our country.
NABH guide & verify the quality, infra, signage for patients patient rights, doctor’s responsibility and many more to improve hospital’s standard and quality of services.
- Patient consider the accreditation as a guarantee of good healthcare services. So, foot fall of the patient increase with this accreditation.
- Rate of NABH accredited hospital is higher in CGHS & other cashless rate lists than private hospital.
Why many hospitals are not interested in getting this accreditation..
- It is lengthy process.
- It cost more money than running hospital without accreditation.
- Many changes in infrastructure and previous design of hopital is required which is again cost effective.
- Certified manpower like, Nurses, Technicians, Attendants, RMOs is suggested. Which again increase the burden of running a hospital.
- Equipment, use of hospital premises, signage, patient rights, doctor’s responsibility any many more things discourage the doctors to go for this accreditation.
- Also, as per current survey, rates of organization helping to get this accreditation is too high than expected as it is compulsory for cashless hospitals. Which suddenly increases their demand in this field.
- Annual maintenance cost of this certification is also too high for small hospitals.
Future of NABH accreditation..
- In coming days, many be this will be not only compulsory for cashless hospitals but also all private hospitals. So, it is better for hospitals to go for this accreditation as soon as possible as anyway they they have to do that.
NABL
NABL Accreditation Services Testing laboratories in accordance with ISO/ IEC 17025 ‘General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories’ Calibration laboratories in accordance with ISO/ IEC 17025 ‘General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories’ Medical testing laboratories in accordance with ISO 15189 ‘Medical laboratories -Requirements for quality and competence’ Proficiency Testing Providers (PTP) in accordance with ISO/IEC 17043 “Conformity assessment — General requirements for proficiency testing” and Reference material producers (RMP) in accordance with ISO 17034 “General requirements for the competence of reference material producers”.
Accreditation is the third party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying the formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment task. Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) is a body which includes testing including medical Laboratory, Calibration Laboratory, Proficiency Testing Provider, Certified Reference Material Producer.
The liberalization of trade and industry policies of the Government of India has created quality consciousness in domestic trade and provided greater thrust for export. As a consequence testing centres and laboratories have to demonstrably operate at an internationally acceptable level of competence.
Laboratory accreditation is a procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition of technical competence for specific tests/ measurements, based on third party assessment and following international standards.
Similarly, Proficiency testing provider accreditation gives formal recognition of competence for organizations that provide proficiency testing. Reference Material Producers Accreditation gives formal recognition of competence to carry out the production of reference materials based on third party assessment and following international standards.
QAI
QAI was set up to create an ecosystem of education, training, quality improvement and accreditation/ certification. We believe that this organisation would provide a platform to stakeholders including professionals and organisations, associated with quality in any way, to share their wisdom and knowledge in order to make its Vision realised. This will further provide tremendous opportunities to all concerned to learn and contribute in improving organisations engaged with QAI. Different activities would be initiated under different verticals in a manner that they remain independent of each other. QAI aims to operate globally. One of the vertical set up within QAI is the Centre for Accreditation of Health and Social Care (CAHSC). It is responsible to run various accreditation/ certification activities in health and social car.
