United Kingdom Accreditation Forum

Remit

• cataloguing programmes and defining their products, both to users and to the general public
• encouraging the sharing of core developments between programmes
• mutual peer review of accreditation programmes
• exploration of the peer review techniques
• the recruitment, training, monitoring and evaluation of surveyors
• the mechanisms for awards of accredited status to organizations
• developing healthcare quality standards
• the implementation of standards within healthcare organizations
• self-regulation: to seek voluntary convergence of standards and of the operation of the assessment process
• to provide a mechanism for accreditation bodies to communicate with each other and, collectively, with others such as government departments, professional colleges and national associations, and commissioning, funding and insurance agencies

  Member accreditation schemes

• Accreditation for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services
• Accreditation of Library and Information Services in the Health Sector
• Autism Accreditation
• Better Services for People who Self-harm
• Child Health Informatics Centre
• CHKS Healthcare Accreditation and Quality Unit
• Clinical Pathology Accreditation Ltd.
• Community of Communities
• Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service
• Health Promoting Hospitals and Trusts
• The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health–UK
• QHA Trent Accreditation
• 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
• RDB Star Rating Ltd