title: Driving improvements and raising efficiency.
abstract: With the new ISO 9001:2008 quality management system (QMS) superseding ISO 9001:2000, Charles Bright, BSc, MBA, principal quality consultant and medical devices lead auditor at specialist medical devices and healthcare sector consultancy Plasmed, discusses implementation of the latest standard, touching on the experience of a large English NHS acute hospital which achieved certification this March--one of only a handful of UK hospitals to have achieved the distinction to date.
authors.affiliation: Plasmed.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bright
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards; D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom