NABH Consultancy

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organisations. the board is structured to cater to much desired needs of the consumers and to set benchmarks for progress of health industry. The board while being supported by all stakeholders including industry, consumers, government, have full functional autonomy in its operation.

Though developed by the Quality Council of India initially on the lines of International Accreditation Standards like the JCI, ACHS and the Canadian Hospital Accreditation Standards, the Full NABH has now evolved over 5 major revisions and is now seen as an advanced and very practical set of Standards, topical and relevant to India’s unique healthcare system requirements. It is also accepted by ISQUa, the International Society for Quality Assurance in Healthcare, as an International Accreditation on par with the world’s best. The Entry Level NABH came up nearly 8 years later to meet the needs of smaller Hospitals who were finding it difficult to comply with the more stringent requirements of the Full NABH.

Both the Full NABH and the Entry Level Quality Standards are effectively Management Systems for all types and sizes of Hospitals that enable them to deliver High Quality Services. The Standards thus cover the entire range of operations and services provided by the Hospital, right from registration of patients and their initial assessment to laboratory services that will be offered in-house as well as those that will be outsourced, display of patient rights & education, policies & procedures on care of patients, management of medication, hospital infection control process that has been deployed, facility management & safety, Human resources management and patient information management systems.