United Kingdom Accreditation Forum - Remit

Remit

• cataloguing programmes and defining their products, both to users and to the general public

• encouraging the sharing of core developments between programmes

• mutual peer review of accreditation programmes

• exploration of the peer review techniques

• the recruitment, training, monitoring and evaluation of surveyors

• the mechanisms for awards of accredited status to organizations

• developing healthcare quality standards

• the implementation of standards within healthcare organizations

• self-regulation: to seek voluntary convergence of standards and of the operation of the assessment process

• to provide a mechanism for accreditation bodies to communicate with each other and, collectively, with others such as government departments, professional colleges and national associations, and commissioning, funding and insurance agencies