Is Your Healthcare Quality Good Enough?
2011-03-25
Is Your Healthcare Quality Good Enough?
On Thursday March 24th, the British Chamber of Commerce in Taipei in conjunction with the European Chamber of Commerce invited QHA Trent Accreditation to address their members on issues regarding Healthcare Accreditation, good management in Hospitals and Clinics, Safety and Quality in Surgery & Obstetrics, infection prevention and control.
Professor Mike Richmond, Professor Tin Chiu (TC) Li and Professor Stephen Green spoke about the necessity of good management, safer surgery and infection prevention and control in hospitals. QHA stressed the need to put patients and staff first and why prevention is better than cure. The importance of clinical quality and governance were highlighted along with the need to reduce risk in surgery. QHA said that hospitals reputations and business can be ruined by bad publicity and expensive legal claims when a failure in appropriate governance occurs and called upon attendees to ensure that they created a governance dashboard as well as safety checklists to help reduce mishaps.
QHA Trent is a British accreditation scheme based on UK clinical governance, and an option to the likes of the USA’s JCI (Joint Commission International).
Professor Mike Richmond is a medical graduate (MBChB) of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland UK, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He has been a Consultant in Anaesthesia since 1988 and Medical Director of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (the UK's largest such organisation) since 2008. He is Honorary Professor of Medical Management at Sheffield Hallam University and a Director of QHA Trent Accreditation for Hospitals and Clinics.
Professor Tin Chiu (TC) Li has been Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 1995, having originally qualified MBBS and MD at Hong Kong University and subsequently came over to the UK to do a PhD at the University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow and of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. He is an Honorary Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, and a Director of QHA Trent Accreditation for Hospitals and Clinics.
Professor Stephen Green studied medicine (MBChB) and physiology (BSc) at the University of Dundee in Scotland UK, and became Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine in Sheffield in 1995. He subsequently graduated MD and obtained the DTM&H from the Royal College of Physicians. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and of Glasgow and of the Faculty of Travel Medicine. He is Honorary Professor of International Health and a Director of QHA Trent Accreditation for Hospitals and Clinics.
