The Peer Review Meeting on the Rapid Response Service (RRS) in the UK was held in Newcastle on 14-15 April 2003, and hosted by Jobcentre Plus and the Department for Work and Pensions. The review was attended by five peer countries: Austria, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain and the Netherlands. A site visit to TTE Management and Technical Training (a provider of RRS services based at the Wilton chemica...

O n July 1, 2014, the second group of programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) entered the Next Accreditation System (NAS), and all programs are now functioning under the principles of NAS, which include continuous accreditation via annual reviews of data, lengthening the interval between scheduled accreditation visits, and a focus on educational o...

BACKGROUND In 2008 the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation launched the Respiratory Therapy Mentoring Program, which pairs a respiratory therapist (RT) relatively new to CF (apprentice) with a highly experienced RT (mentor) from a similar CF care center. We wished to determine if we had achieved our short-term goal of increasing CF-specific knowledge among the apprentices who participated in the pr...

we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...

INTRODUCTION Rapid HIV tests have improved access to HIV diagnosis and treatment by providing quick and convenient testing in rural clinics and resource-limited settings. In this study, we evaluated the quality management system for voluntary and provider-initiated point-of-care HIV testing in primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in rural KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. MATERIAL AND METHODS We...