The QED Standards
The QED
standards for Adult Inpatient services - Pilot
Edition has now been published.
Below is information on what the standards cover,
and how they have been developed.
Please click the links below for more
information:
Our Standards
We believe that it is
important that our standards reflect the issues which make a
difference to the experience of the person using the
service.
For this reason, the
standards follow a patient pathway through care and how the service
interfaces with other services. As far as possible,
standards are written from the service user perspective, with an
emphasis on a purposeful admission.
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Standards
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Standards
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Meeting national requirements
We recognise that services
are under increased pressure to demonstrate that they comply with
national policies and guidelines.
For this reason our
standards incorporate requirements and recommendations set out
nationally.
This means that the process
of accreditation will enable your service to demonstrate where it
is currently meeting national requirements and will support the
service to meet them where it is not currently.
The standards are aligned
with:
- Department of Health Policy Implementation
Guides
- the findings of the Confidential Inquiry into
Suicide and Homicide
- NICE guidance
- recommendations by NHS Estates and the Royal
College of Psychiatrists about ward design
- the National Patient Safety Agency’s Safer
Wards for Acute Psychiatry Initiative
- recommendations arising from the National
Audit of Violence.
- MARSIPAN giudelines
- East of England Specialised Commissioning Group care
pathway
Reflecting the views of those in the field
We know that those who are
in the field have the best understanding of the issues and
challenges that they face in providing high quality care.
The standards that we use
are underpinned by a core set of values developed by our expert
QED advisory group, made up of a large group of 25 members and
includes senior representatives from adult and CAMHS services,
inpatient and community services and includes
psychiatry, psychology, nursing, occupational therapy,
dietetics and commissioning.There are also representation
from front-line staff, service users, carers and other
interested groups such as professional bodies.
What the standards cover
The standards
cover five domains:
- General Standards, including policies, protocols and staffing
related issues
- Timely and Purposeful Admission
- Safety
- Environment and Facilities
- Therapies and Activities
The complete set of standards is
aspirational; we do not expect services to meet every standard, and
services can still be accredited as excellent without meeting all
the standards.
How we measure performance against the standards
We recognise that wards are
diverse and that, for example, high quality care does not
necessarily require a new purpose-built ward. Therefore,
services are categorised against each standard at one of three
levels:
Level 1:
failure to meet these standards could result in a significant
threat to the safety, rights or dignity of service users and/or
would breach the law. These standards must be met for a ward
to be accredited
Level 2:
standards that an accredited ward would be expected to meet
Level 3:
standards that an excellent ward should meet or standards that are
not the direct responsibility of the ward
Keeping up to date
We review the standards
regularly to ensure that they continue to reflect developments in
policy and practice and any issues identified through the
accreditation process.
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