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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 |
Accreditation of Library and Information Services in the Health
Sector
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Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships |
This accreditation
scheme is not a formally managed programme but a published
accreditation framework consisting of a checklist of standards
and guidelines on their use in practice. It has been developed
by the Quality and Statistics Working Group of LKDN (the UK NHS
(National Health Service) Library and Knowledge Development
Network) in partnership with Helicon (Health Libraries
Information Partnership), entering its second edition in 2002.
LKDN is an informal network for all the English NHS Workforce
Development Confederation library leads, along with
representatives from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and
specialists from related areas. Helicon is a cross sectoral
network covering health libraries and health library networks
from the NHS, higher education, the independent sector and
national libraries. |
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Scope and focus of programme |
Intended to be
applicable for assessing all health libraries, the framework has
been published primarily for use by NHS Workforce Development
Confederations in England who are tasked by the UK Department of
Health to commission library services for the National Health
Service. Although not managed as a formal programme, LKDN
provides oversight of its development and use. It has also
arranged training for assessment team leaders who are normally
Confederation knowledge and library service lead managers. Each
Confederation manages the use of the framework locally. In the
absence of any other standards for NHS libraries the scheme has
been taken up by around 50% of Confederations (and by the NHS in
Wales) with more planning its implementation during 2004.
Moderation is carried out informally by lead managers serving on
assessment panels carrying out accreditation visits in other
Confederations. |
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Products and services |
Work is ongoing with
the UK Department of Health to assess the feasibility of
developing standards which are more applicable across health
libraries in both the NHS and higher education sectors. Other
developments to streamline assessment and monitoring processes
in the national health service may also impact on the future
development and endorsement of the framework. |
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Standards |
The absence of a
formal programme precludes application for ALPHA accreditation,
although the LKDN Quality and Statistics Working Group are aware
of UKAF’s aim to work towards ALPHA accreditation and are
familiar with the requirements. |
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Web-site |
Main contact: Val
Trinder, Knowledge Services Strategy Manager, Thames Valley
Workforce Development Confederation, Jubilee House, 5510 John
Smith Drive, Oxford Business Park South, Cowley, Oxford, OX4
2LH, UK. Telephone: 44(0)1865 336914, Fax: 44(0)1865 336901.
E-mail:
val.trinder@tvha.nhs.uk
The
programme does not have a dedicated website, but copies of the
published framework are available free to download from the
National Electronic Library for Health at:
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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:
Val Trinder, LKDN
Accreditation Lead. 2003. |
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