title: Health service accreditation in the United Kingdom.
abstract: Political and professional attitudes in the United Kingdom are now increasingly supportive of systematic quality assurance, particularly in the acute sector. This paper describes general progress towards organisational audit or accreditation of hospitals and outlines the structure, process and findings of two developing programmes--one based at the King's Fund Centre in London, the other in the South Western Region in Bristol.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Accreditation Programme, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Brooks
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom