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Healthcare quality

Our work focusses on many aspects of quality including quality assurance and assessment, certification, benchmarking, management and clinical auditing, external assessment, quality and safety, quality improvement, performance measurement, quality

Our work focusses on many aspects of quality including quality assurance and assessment, certification, benchmarking, management and clinical auditing, external assessment, quality and safety, quality improvement, performance measurement, quality monitoring, standardisation in healthcare, as well as the development and evaluation of evidence-based guidelines.

We aim to provide citizens with a high degree of confidence in healthcare services, via

  • the provision of evidence-based guidelines and
  • the implementation and auditing, within the accreditation legal frame, of a set of quality standards (quality assurance scheme) based on these guidelines.

Our methods include the involvement of citizens, experts and stakeholders at all stages through the use of open consultation, consensus, standardisation and peer evaluation. Transparency and inclusiveness are key elements. The impact of our work means increased visibility (short term), implementation of European Quality Assurance scheme and evidence-based guidelines (intermediate), and improvement in health outcomes (long term).

The main activties of the Healthcare Quality Team are the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (ECIBC) and the European Commission Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (ECICC).