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Moyra Amess, Director, Benchmarking, Assurance and Accreditation, leads the benchmarking, assurance and accreditation service within CHKS. CHKS provide a full accreditation programme across the range of health sectors from hospices, care homes and primary care through to hospital departments, full hospital and regional services. This includes both public, private and third sector organisations. Moyra is accountable for this service alongside the CHKS benchmarking and consultancy service which aims to provide benchmarking information on the efficiency and outcomes of hospitals who submit their activity data. Her experience and skills include the development of standards and audit criteria to assess and measure health care and health outcomes, evaluation of health care quality, and understanding of data sources and healthcare indicators. She speaks at conferences about the role of accreditation in improving quality in healthcare and is a standing committee member on Quality Standards Committee 3 at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, a member of the ISQua Accreditation Council, and Chairman of the UK Health and Social Care Accreditation Forum.
Carly Melbourne is the Head of Clinical Quality at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA). She leads the RCoA’s accreditation scheme – Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) which launched in 2013. ACSA is UK wide and spans the NHS and private sector. The ACSA programme has now reached critical mass of engagement and Carly works closely with national regulators to ensure the message of accreditation remains high on the national agenda.
Rob Turpin is the Healthcare Sector Lead at the British Standards Institution (BSI) and has led the development of the healthcare standards programme since 2012. He has expertise in creation of consensus standards to support healthcare services; developing strategies for future standards programmes; and agreeing national input into European and international (ISO) programmes. Rob has worked with the Clinical Services Accreditation Alliance and several medical Royal Colleges during his time in his role.
Teena Chowdhury Chowdhury joined the RCP in 2017 as Operations Director, Audit & Accreditation in the Care Quality Improvement Department. She has oversight of 3 national clinical audit programmes and 5 clinical service accreditation schemes aiming to secure wide-ranging improvements for patients across multiple clinical areas. Teena has over 15 years of experience, gained through leading working across the health sector, in standards development, quality assurance and patient and public.
Charles Shaw trained as a hospital accreditation surveyor in Canada and helped to set up national programmes in France, South Africa, Jordan and UK. Charles established the UK Accreditation Forum (now Health and Social Care) at the King’s Fund, and a European Forum based in Krakow. He has led several surveys of national accreditation programmes in Europe and globally, which provided the basis of many published papers. Since retiring from the NHS in 2000 Charles has been occupied with quality improvement in health systems and is currently working on quality in perinatal care in Kyrgyzstan and national quality planning in Jordan.
Tim Cooper is Director of The Quality Review Service, a collaborative venture between NHS organisations to help improve the quality of health services by developing evidence-based Quality Standards, carrying out developmental and supportive quality reviews, often through peer review visits, producing comparative information on the quality of services and providing development and learning for all involved.
Expected outcomes are better quality, safety and clinical outcomes, better patient and carer experience, organisations with better information about the quality of clinical services, and organisations with more confidence and competence in reviewing the quality of clinical services. More detail about the work of QRS is available on www.wmqrs.nhs.uk. The only NHS healthcare inspection body accredited by UKAS. Contact Tim Cooper. Director on timcooper@nhs.net.
Other valued members and observers include:
Members
Sue Brand, Managing Director, RDB Star RatingSusan Eardley, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Peter Thompson, Sophie Longson, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Jane Ingham, Sue Latchem, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
Jan Mackereth-Hill, Independent.
Henry Clover, Simply Health
Steven Wilson, Health Improvement Scotland
Observers
Clare Land, Care Quality CommissionMatt Gantley, Stephen Mitchell, United Kingdom Accreditation Service
Jo Marsden, British Association of Day Surgery