1. Areas of healthcare and wellness covered by the QHA Trent accreditation process

QHA Trent’s system has comprehensive standards sets that deal thoroughly with the generality of governance and clinical governance in a hospital or clinic.
 
In addition, there are standards sets that specifically focus on certain areas of healthcare and wellness activity, including the following a, b
  • Clinical
    • Bariatric surgery and dietetics
    • Orthopaedics
    • Cosmetic and aesthetic surgery and medicine
    • Transplant surgery
    • Minimal access surgery
    • Cardiology services (including cardiac surgery and transplantation)
    • Renal dialysis (haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis)
    • In-vitro fertilisation/assisted conception
    • Cancer services, including radiotherapy and chemotherapy
    • Palliative care
    • Dental services
    • Physiotherapy
    • Occupational therapy
    • Speech and language therapy
    • Day procedure unit
  • Primary Care
    • General practice
    • Health screening centre
    • Accident and emergency department
  • Diagnostic services
    • Laboratory services
    • Diagnostic imaging
    • Endoscopy services
  • Others
    • Telemedicine
    • Occupational health services
    • Spas
    • Counselling
    • Traditional, alternative and complementary medicine
 
a  Not all hospitals or clinics will have all of these services.
b  This is not a comprehensive list, and new sets of standards are constantly under development