The interview tool covered the following main topics: benefits of accreditation, the effect of accreditation on staff and patient satisfaction, enabling and success factors, and challenges to the process of accreditation as well as strategies for improving implementation of accreditation.
"We are assessing our staff skills, accreditation, and management of staff working on environment and social safeguards," he said.
Participating countries chose their own conference attendees; these included heads of accreditation agencies, senior staff from ministries of health, senior staff from insurers and representatives of relevant non-governmental organizations.
A minimum of 300 web-based surveys using KeySurvey 33 software (WorldAPP, Braintree, MA) will be collected from a purposive sample of staff from accreditation agency member organisations, that is, acute, primary and aged care services enrolled in accreditation programmes.
In an effort to ensure data are representative, a minimum number of responses are set by Accreditation Canada based on the number of staff in each organisation.
Observational audits of clubs during busy football matches will be conducted at each level of accreditation by research staff whom are otherwise independent of intervention implementation.
Figure 2 displays the maximum number of HIV positive individuals that could be treated with ART ARTT output) in Tanzania in five different scenarios with the current human resource capacity and planned pace of accreditation of new treatment centres, varying staff productivity and patient loss.
Employers without accreditation pay staff a minimum of £7.85 an hour (or £9.15 in London) but avoid being tied into living wage increases or being compelled to force subcontractors to pay staff the living wage as well.
There was the need, as one participant succinctly put it, "to translate the language of accreditation to frontline staff and then for them to say, 'oh, this is about the work we do', and get them to understand".
Education and training of staff were critical for the implementation of accreditation [ 9, 13, 16].
