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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 |
Community of
Communities
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Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships |
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Royal College of
Psychiatrists’ Research and Training Unit
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Association of
Therapeutic Communities
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The Prison Service
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The Charterhouse Group
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The Planned
Environment Therapy Trust
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Department of Health, The National Personality
Disorder Team
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Objectives |
To
support continuous quality improvement in therapeutic
communities (TC’s) using
a systematic quality improvement process that
incorporates peer-review, sharing of ideas and joint
discussion. |
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Scope and focus of programme |
Community of Communities brings
together therapeutic communities, both in the UK and
internationally. It includes four networks:
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Adult Democratic TCs including:
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Accreditation process for
NHS TCs
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Accreditation process for
TCs in prisons
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Children and Young People TCs
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Addictions TCs
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Learning Disability
Communities
TCs are specialist services with
the central philosophy that service users are active
participants in their own and each others’ treatment.
Responsibility for the daily running of the community is
shared amongst themselves and staff. |
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Products and services |
The project uses an annual and iterative cycle of self-
and peer-reviews, based on a set of specially developed
service standards.
Participants receive a local review summary and a
national report, which allows for benchmarking and
attendance at an annual member’s forum.
Members receive a quarterly newsletter including staff
and service user input from all our members.
Lead reviewer training and peer-review training is
provided. |
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Standards |
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Service Standards for Therapeutic Communities: 5th
Edition
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Joint Standards for Democratic Therapeutic
Communities in Prisons
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NHS Commissioning Standards
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Service Standards for Addictions Therapeutic
Communities: 1st Edition
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Services Standards for Children and Young People’s
Therapeutic Communities: 1st Edition
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The Service Standards for Therapeutic Communities
are available on the website.
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Web-site |
http://www.communityofcommunities.org.uk |
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