Our quality standards set out priority areas for quality improvement in health, public health and social care.
Standards and Indicators
We have a library of over 200 quality standards and a single menu of indicators, designed to help define and measure quality in health, public health and social care.
These can be highly valuable for commissioners, service providers, practitioners, partner organisations and charities. They're also of significant use to service users and those close to them.
Quality standards
Each standard includes a set of statements to help improve quality and information on how to measure progress.
There are a number of ways that you can get involved in the development and promotion of our quality standards
Quaity standards support our guidelines by highlighting key areas to focus on.
We've put together a core list of topics for quality standard development.
The key stages for the development of quality standards.
Indicators
Our indicators measure outcomes that reflect quality of care. They also look at processes that are linked by evidence to improved outcomes.
Our indicators measure outcomes that reflect the quality of care, or processes linked by evidence to improved outcomes.
We work with an independent indicator advisory committee (IAC) to develop quality indicators.
