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Volume 3, Issue 3
1 March 1990
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Research Article| March 01 1990

Organisational Audit: A National Approach to Setting and Monitoring Organisational Standards

Christine Pitt
Christine Pitt
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6542
Print ISSN: 0952-6862
© MCB UP Limited
1990
Int J Health Care Qual Assur (1990) 3 (3)
https://doi.org/10.1108/09526869010141675

A project in progress within the Quality Assurance Programme at the King′s Fund Centre to consider the feasibility and the applicability of an organisational audit (accreditation) programme to the British health care system is described. It begins with a definition of accreditation and a description of its history and the process itself, before concentrating on the detail of the King′s Fund Centre project.

Keywords: QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, AUDIT, STANDARDS
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