December 9, 2009
NABH has released the draft standards for accreditation of dental institutions / centres / hospitals. Quality is the need of the present time with development of technology and availability of new equipment, Dentistry is becoming more and more effective but along with that unsafe. The idea behind the release of the standard is to have safe practices and deliver high quality treatment. Introducing quality management systems are very important and the standards help us to achieve it.
NABH STANDARDS FOR DENTAL FACILITIES
The NABH standards have been laid down keeping the Indian ethos and working environment in mind. The main focus of the standards is on patient, employee, visitor and environment safety. These standards are applicable to multidisciplinary Dental hospitals and single specialty hospitals providing secondary, tertiary and quaternary levels of dental care. All the standards are core standards and no optional standards have been laid down. The compliance with these standards will indicate that the hospital is patient, staff and environment friendly.
The standards are deceptively simple and are divided in to 10 chapters with 5 chapters being patient centric and 5 chapters being organisation centric. On going through the details during the phase of implementation of the standards one would realize that extra efforts and resources are indeed required for ensuring compliance with the standards. It may also be observed, at the time of implementation, that there may be some duplication at a few places. Duplication is a necessity since it will ensure compliance with the said standards and also emphasize the importance of the standards and the objective elements. Apart from extra resources needed for implementation, a few guidelines are equally necessary for easy comprehension and correct implementation. The ensuing guidelines, chapter-wise in tabulated form, have been laid down for easy comprehension, better understanding of the standards and the objective elements, removing and clarifying ambiguities uniform application of standards across the organization, and smoother and more efficient implementation.
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