ISQua EEA Quality & Patient Safety Training Standards

In October 2022 the ISQua External Evaluation Association issued the first edition of its Guidelines and Standards for Quality and Patient Safety Training Programmes, extending international accreditation to the education programmes that build improvement and safety capability inside health systems: programmes run by accreditation bodies, universities, health authorities and training institutes. The standards address programme governance and management, curriculum design grounded in current quality and patient-safety science, educator competence, learner assessment, the learning environment and its resources, and programme evaluation and improvement.

This package begins where a programme begins, with a training needs analysis and a development plan and business case, then sets scope, governance and quality objectives in a quality manual and maps the 1st Edition standards and criteria to programme operations through an accreditation readiness scheme. Procedures carry the programme through governance, planning and management review, delivery, trainee admission, information and registration, assessment of competence, complaints and appeals, information management and trainee records, and programme evaluation and continuous improvement. Registration, attendance, session feedback, assessment result and special consideration forms handle the day-to-day, while a standards self-assessment and gap analysis checklist, a legal and ethical compliance checklist and an evidence and rating guide show how far the programme is from the requirements before an external reviewer says so.