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J R Soc Promot Health · Nov 2008
Review Comparative StudyThe role of organizational licensing in healthcare.
- Ellie Scrivens and Lindsay Skelton.
- Healthcare Standards Unit, Healthcare Standards Unit, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. e.e.j.scrivens@keele.ac.uk
- J R Soc Promot Health. 2008 Nov 1; 128 (6): 299-305.
AbstractMuch has been written about organizational accreditation in healthcare, but little attention has been paid to licensing providers as a means to control quality in the provision of health and social care. Licensing has a variety of different applications but frequently involves a mandatory assessment against standards. This paper reports on a comparison of the various ways in which the basic requirements for quality are framed in a range of licensing systems and concludes that there are considerable similarities in the approach to quality used across both health and social care licensing systems in many countries.
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