National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers

NABH is an acronym for National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. NABH was established in year 2006.

Overview

Organisations like the Quality Council of India (QCI) and its National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers have designed an exhaustive healthcare standard for hospitals and healthcare providers. This standard consists of stringent 600 plus objective elements for the hospital to achieve in order to get the NABH accreditation. These standards are divided between patient centered standards and organization centred standards.

To comply with these standard elements, the hospital will need to have a process-driven approach in all aspects of hospital activities – from registration, admission, pre-surgery, peri-surgery and post-surgery protocols, discharge from the hospital to follow-up with the hospital after discharge.Not only the clinical aspects but the governance aspects are to process driven based on clear and transparent policies and protocols.In a nutshell NABH aims at streamlining the entire operations of a hospital.

NABH is equivalent to JCI and other International standards including HAS: Haute Authorite de Sante, Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, the Japan Council for Quality in Health Care, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance in the United States. Its standards have been accredited by ISQUA the apex body accrediting the accreditators hence making NABH accreditation at par with the worlds most leading hospital accreditations.

Medication Errors can be avoided at the point of care within the hospitals; prescription points like OPs and drug dispensesing points like pharmacies and nursing stations by the use of reliable and updated drug information, e.g.,MedCLIK.

The official website of QCI should be referred for application and implementation of Healthcare standards. The Quality Council of India works under the guidance of Ministry of Commerce.

External links

• National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers, Official website
• NABH Accreditation Requirements