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Accreditation for
Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS)
Accreditation of Library and Information Services in the Health
Sector
Autism
Accreditation
Better
Services for People who Self-harm
Child Health
Informatics Centre (CHIC)
CHKS
Clinical
Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd
Community of
Communities
Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS)
Health Promoting Hospitals and Trusts
The
Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health–UK (POMH-UK)
Quality Network for Forensic
Mental Health Services
Quality
Improvement Network for Multi-agency Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Services
Quality Network
for In-Patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (QNIC)
RDB Star Rating Ltd
(Residential and Domiciliary Care Benchmarking)
Trent
Accreditation Scheme |
Clinical Pathology
Accreditation (UK) Ltd (CPA)
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Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships |
CPA
is co-owned by the Royal
College of Pathologists (RCPath), the Institute of
Healthcare Management (IHM), the Institute of Biomedical
Science (IBMS), the Association of Clinical Pathologists
(ACP), the Association of Clinical Biochemists (ACB) and
a representative organisation for the Independent
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Objectives |
CPA provides
a means to accredit Clinical Pathology Services and
External Quality Assessment Schemes (EQA).
It involves
an external audit of the ability to provide a service of
high quality by declaring a defined standard of
practice, which is confirmed by peer review.
See also
CPA’s quality policy attached. |
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Scope and focus of programme |
All aspects
relating to the accreditation of medical laboratories
and EQA Schemes. This is national and international.
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Products and services |
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Standards |
Standards
for the Medical Laboratory incorporating ISO 15189: 2003
Standards
for EQA Schemes in Laboratory Medicine incorporating
ILAC G13: 2000 |
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Web-site |
www.cpa-uk.co.uk,
link
incorporated to CPA Support website |
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Please confirm that the appropriate authority (Chief
Executive, Director, Management Council, etc., as
appropriate) has given permission for a link to be made
from the UKAF website to your organisation’s website:
Authority
received from Executive Manager |
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