IMPLEMENTING ACCREDITATION SYSTEMS (23 MAY 1994, TREVISO, ITALY)

Representatives of seventeen existing and developing national accredit ation systems for health services met-in Treviso, Italy, in May 1994. The purpose was to identify common characteristics, challenges and sol utions in order to help the younger programmes to build on the experie nce of the well-established, particularly those in the United States, Canada and Australia, General questions and conclusions are reported w ith respect to aims, organisation, funding, standards development, ope ration and evaluation but it is emphasized that individual programmes must be designed and developed to be sensitive to local needs.