Focusing on Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance.

Any facility or program operated by the Office of Mental Health shall restrict the use of personal cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices on the grounds of such facility or program, as set forth in this policy directive, provided, however, that the use of personally owned cell phones, recording devices, and wireless devices within forensic and secure facilities or units shall be i...

Quality assurance and quality control

In recent years, quality assurance (QA) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) have become increasingly important in the pharmaceutical industry. They are of particular importance in the manufacture of veterinary vaccines since such products have the following specific characteristics: The active ingredients are almost always produced by the manufacturer (and not as is generally the case by anot...

Reflections on hospital quality assurance programs.

s and Reports 171 Evaluating quality means making value judgments about the results of technical and/or administrative procedures. It is important to understand that such value judgments should not be based on subjective personal preferences, but should be related to standards objectively set in advance. These standards or indicators are basic tools for the evaluation process. On the other hand...