Medical Clinics Accreditation
Overview
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The term Medical Clinics for the purpose of
these standards refer to all ‘free standing’
outpatient clinic services managed by medical
practitioner and cover both private and public
sector clinics including specialist clinics. The
term ‘services’ include consultations,
investigations and treatments.
The Medical Clinic Standards were developed with
collaboration between the Ministry of Health
Malaysia, the Ministry of Defence Malaysia and
the various professional organisations
representing the medical clinics i.e. the
Malaysian Medical Association, the Academy of
Medicine, the Academy of Family Physicians of
Malaysia, the Family Medicine Specialist
Association of Malaysia, Primary Care Doctors’
Organization Malaysia, the Federation of Private
Medical Practitioners Association, the
Association of Specialist in Private Medical
Practice Malaysia, the Islamic Medical
Association of Malaysia, the Association of
Private Hospitals of Malaysia and Qualitas
Medical Group Sdn. Bhd.. Development of these
standards were based on existing standards from
the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
References were also made from the National
Quality Improvement Programme in General
Practice developed by the Academy of Family
Physicians Malaysia and the Professional
Standards for Family Medicine Specialist
(Malaysia).
These standards were developed based on the
ISQua Accreditation Federation Council
principles and philosophy on standards
development. The purpose of these standards was
to ensure safe medical practice, patient safety
and quality service in primary care as well as
in the specialist clinics. |
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