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It has become essential for those involved in the commisioning and delivery of healthcare at all levels to possess the relevant expertise, skills and knowledge of quality and quality-related issues such as clinical governance and patient safety.

The Chartered Quality Institite (CQI) is a long established learned society dedicated to the promotion of quality. At the beginning of 2002, the Council of what was then the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) decided to include new special interest groups and the CQI Health and Social Care Group was developed through the incorporation into the institute of an existing charity AQH (The Association for Quality in Health and Social Care). The special interest group was launched at the IQA Annual conference in Harrogate in October 2002.

AQH was established more than ten years ago and has been the sole UK organisation which promoted all aspects of healthcare quality, with a multi-professional membership.

The CQI Health and Social Care Group is one of the non-Government organisations (NGOs) represented on the NICE partners council. It represents UK quality organisations on the executive of ESQH, the European Society for Quality in Healthcare.

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Mission

The CQI Health and Social Care Group is established to bring together both organisations and individuals, whatever their current professional role, who have an interest in continuously improving the quality of health and social care in the United Kingdom and in furthering knowledge related to the subject of quality in health and social care. The group aims to promote measurable and continuous improvement in the quality of health and social care for the benefit of the public.

This page updated 2006/12/31.