The role of organizational licensing in healthcare.
Much has been written about organizational accreditation in healthcare, but little attention has been paid to licensing providers as a means to control quality in the provision of health and social care. Licensing has a variety of different applications but frequently involves a mandatory assessment against standards. This paper reports on a comparison of the various ways in which the basic requirements for quality are framed in a range of licensing systems and concludes that there are considerable similarities in the approach to quality used across both health and social care licensing systems in many countries.
Scrivens
Ellie
E
Healthcare Standards Unit, Healthcare Standards Unit, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. e.e.j.scrivens@keele.ac.uk
Skelton
Lindsay
L
D001315:Australia; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D013019:South Africa; D013219:State Government; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States