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AIMS is a
standards-based accreditation service designed to improve the
quality of care in psychiatric wards. Standards are drawn from
authoritative sources and cover all aspects of the inpatient
journey. Compliance is measured by self- and peer-review.
Accreditation is valid for up to 4 years, subject to an annual
self-review. AIMS accredits acute and assessment wards for working
age adults and wards for older people. |
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Community of
Communities is a standards-based quality
improvement network bringing together Therapeutic Communities (TCs)
in the UK and internationally. Member communities are located in
Health, Education, Social Care and Prison settings. The network
enables therapeutic communities to engage in service evaluation and
quality improvement using methods and values that reflect their
philosophy, specifically the belief that responsibility is best
promoted through interdependence. |
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ECT Accreditation Service
(ECTAS) is a standards-based accreditation
service designed to improve the quality of the administration of
electroconvulsive therapy. Feedback from clinics undertaking the
accreditation process indicates that ECTAS has helped bring about
widespread improvements in the provision of ECT, including
investment in new equipment and better deployment of staff. |
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Home
Treatment Accreditation Scheme (HTAS) is a new standards-based accreditation service
for crisis resolution and home treatment teams. A pilot phase
of this programme is open to services in 2012, with the scheme
launching nationwide in 2013. |
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The
Quality Network for Learning Disability
Services is a standards-based quality network for
inpatient learning disability services that provides an opportunity
for them to share good practice and facilitate quality
improvement. |
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Memory Services National
Accreditation Programme (MSNAP) is a
standards-based accreditation programme designed to improve the
quality of care received by people with memory
problems/dementia (specifically focusing on the process
around the assessment and diagnosis of memory
problems/dementia). The CCQI, in partnership with the National
Institute for Mental Health in England (NIHME)/Care Services
Improvement Partnership (CSIP) North West, first piloted this
programme in the North West of England and due to
the success, the programme became available nationwide from
June 2009 and is currently open for membership. |
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Psychiatric Liaison
Accreditation Network (PLAN) works with services to assure and improve the
quality of psychiatric liaison in hospital settings, from referral
systems, to meeting emergency and routine mental health
needs. It engages staff and service users in a
comprehensive process of review, through which good practice and
high quality care are recognised and services are supported to
identify and address areas for improvement. |
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Quality Network
for Community CAMHS (QNCC) is a network that
works with community-based child and adolescent mental health
services, improving services for young people through a supportive,
standards-based review process. A key focus of the network is the
interface between CAMHS and other agencies involved in delivering
care such as social services, education and the voluntary
sector. |
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Quality Network for Inpatient
CAMHS (QNIC) is a
network for in-patient child and adolescent mental health services.
Approximately 85-90% of units in the UK and Ireland are members and
the network has recently expanded with services in Iceland, Norway
and Turkey participating. QNIC demonstrates and improves the
quality of child and adolescent psychiatric in-patient care through
a system of review against service standards. The process is
supportive and enables information sharing between services that
can sometimes be isolated. |
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Quality
Network for Forensic Mental Health Services is the
network that facilitates quality improvement and change in forensic
mental health settings through peer-review. A fundamental principle
is that of listening to and being led by frontline staff and
service users. The model is one of engagement. The network
identifies areas for improvement through a culture of openness and
enquiry rather than of inspection or blame. The process breaks
down isolation, promotes learning between services and supports
local staff to improve their services in line with national
guidance about best practice. |
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Quality
Network for Perinatal Mental Health Services is
a peer-review network that works with in-patient mother and
baby units. Standards have been developed in collaboration with
perinatal professionals and service users. The network measures
services’ performance against the standards and encourages quality
improvement and information sharing between peers. The long term
aim is to work with other perinatal mental health services
such as outreach teams. |
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The
Enabling Environments
Award is a
quality mark given to those who can demonstrate they are achieving
an outstanding level of best practice in creating and sustaining a
positive and effective social environment. The Enabling
Environments Award is based on core values that contribute to
healthy relationships. Through a standards-based accreditation
program your organisation will be supported in providing evidence
that you are achieving excellence in providing a healthy relational
environment for all their participants. |
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