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The role of organizational licensing in healthcare

Ellie Scrivens

Healthcare Standards Unit, Healthcare Standards Unit, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK, e.e.j.scrivens@keele. ac.uk

Lindsay Skelton

Healthcare Standards Unit, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK

Much has been written about organizational accreditation in healthcare, but little attention has been paid to licensing providers as a means to control quality in the provision of health and social care. Licensing has a variety of different applications but frequently involves a mandatory assessment against standards. This paper reports on a comparison of the various ways in which the basic requirements for quality are framed in a range of licensing systems and concludes that there are considerable similarities in the approach to quality used across both health and social care licensing systems in many countries.

Key Words: licensing • registration • accreditation • quality • quality assessment

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 128, No. 6, 299-305 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/14664240081280060501
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