No.	Date	Programme	Link
1	06.01.2023	FP service providers list	List

National Quality Assurance Standards have been developed keeping in the specific requirements for public health facilities as well global best practices. NQAS are currently available for District Hospitals, CHCs, PHCs,Urban PHCs and HWC-SC. Standards are primary meant for providers to assess their own quality for improvement though standards are also used for certification. NQAS measures quality through eight broad area of concern– Service Provision, Patient Rights, Inputs, Support Services, Clinical Care, Infection Control, Quality Management and Outcome. These standards are ISQUA accredited and meets global benchmarks in terms of comprehensiveness, objectivity, evidence and rigor of development.

Vision – Improve health status through concentrated policy action in all sectors and expand preventive, promote, curative, palliative and rehabilitative services provided through the public health sector with focus on Quality.

Strategies

Rs.10000 per functional bed on National accreditation,

• 25% for individual incentives,
• 75% for staff welfare and improving work environment,
• Annual incentives of same amount for maintaining the accreditation
• Facilitation at state level
• Publication of achievement in media
• CMEs, Trainings, Short courses for staff

Even though NQAS was stated in the year 2013, Kerala was not able to accredit many institutions with NQAS because of certain check points in the NQAS check list which are not suitable for Kerala S socio economic and health conditions. Last year state took initiatives to customize the NQAS check list according to Kerala standards with the help of NHSRC and the checklist   were customized according to Kerala conditions in November 2017. The checklist customization was done by removing some items irrelevant to Kerala conditions and by adding PALIATIVE CARE into the check list.

After customizing the check list kerala has made tremendous progress in NQAS accreditation.  institutions from the state have already qualified in state level assessments and applied for national level certification. The cumulative number of NQAS facilities in Kerala is mentioned Below: