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<p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is
run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation
provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p>
</p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the
standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration
process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective
gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making
an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which
show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate
improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p>
</p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised
relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement
actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period.
Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation
for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for
People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published
in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect
providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation
with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p>
</p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use
of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation
is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS
website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by
NHS England.</p>
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