Who we are and what we do The QHA Group is a British-based healthcare company with a worldwide vision dedicated to improving quality and reducing risk for patients, healthcare providers and the general public.

The QHA Group is owned and managed by a group of acknowledged clinicians and other experts actively working within the British National Health Service (NHS) and in British private medical practice. It values professionalism and commitment to service above all else, and in this way QHA ensures that patients are put first, as they should be.

QHA has considerable and longstanding expertise in a wide range of healthcare fields, most especially in the field of independent hospital and clinic accreditation.

The QHA Group is headquartered in the Trent Region of the UK, in the great Steel City of Sheffield, and at its heart is owned and run by a group of senior doctors and healthcare executives possessing between them a formidable collective track record both in the UK>s NHS and the private healthcare sector - not just in the field of healthcare accreditation but well beyond.

Quality, innovation and providing genuine value for money are all very important to the QHA Group, and the company seeks to live up to these ideals by tapping into the vast reserves of expertise and experience available to it through its extensive network of associates and contacts. In this way QHA is able to offer a wide range of healthcare-orientated services, with a special emphasis on independent expert hospital and clinic surveying and accreditation.

To date, QHA Trent has worked with hospitals and clinics of the private hospitals Association in Hong Kong, throughout the Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Malta, and Southeast Asia.

Why accreditation?
An external eye can be very helpful when it comes to uncovering problems and concerns within a hospital or clinic and correcting them. The best disinfectant for problems
and concerns is to cast light upon them.

Problems and concerns can not only discomfit patients, third party payers and regulatory authorities but can also cost a healthcare provider or a doctor money, for example if a dissatisfied patient were to take legal action. Also, hospitals and clinics may wish to have external verification of their commitment to quality, for example to assist them with their marketing.

Using standards based principally upon UK NHS clinical governance (but with bespoke elements), and applied by experienced volunteer surveyors derived from medical, nursing, allied healthcare professional and managerial backgrounds, QHA Trent’s Accreditation Services will work in partnership with hospitals and clinics located anywhere in the world to identify risk and maximise safety for patients, staff, visitors and the general public. QHA Trent adheres to a developmental approach to the accreditation process, and the scheme can either:
1. survey and accredit individual hospitals or clinics with surveyors brought in entirely from outside the country (most usually from the UK),
or
2. work with a group of hospitals to set up a locally-based system for surveying and accrediting those hospitals which makes use of surveyors recruited from the staff of those hospitals. Those locally-based surveyors would receive training from QHA Trent and would join externallysourced surveyors on the surveying teams.

QHA Trent adheres to a policy of not only identifying areas of concern which require remedying but also flagging up areas meriting commendation.