Why should you seek accreditation?

The major benefit of seeking accreditation for your practice is that it gives you a clearly defined way of measuring how compliant you are with the many regulations and guidelines governing the dental profession, and a system through which you can continually improve how you operate.

 You might also undertake accreditation:

• To improve the day-to-day running of your practice
• As a way of measuring the effectiveness of changes to the way you run your practice
• To reduce risk of incidents
• To give you an effective way of marketing your practice
• To demonstrate to your patients your commitment to safety and quality

Documenting the way you operate

Becoming accredited to the  National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards (NSQHS Standards)  applicable to the dental profession might seem a little daunting at first. However, practice accreditation is essentially about documenting your existing practice procedures, potentia lly introducing a few new ones, and in the process continually improving your practice’s performance and ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.

Your practice most likely has many of the necessary processes and procedures in place already and all you will need to do is document them, make improvements where necessary to ensure they meet the NSQPCH standards.