Practice accreditation for general practitioners in five steps

Certify the quality of your practice

In your (pharmacy) GP practice, you deal with patients on a daily basis. Patients are increasingly becoming the focus of healthcare. Due to the increasing control that patients have over their choice of healthcare provider, it is important to be able to demonstrate measurable data on quality and safety. Practice accreditation allows you to show patients that quality is paramount in your practice.

Practice accreditation helps your practice meet high standards in the areas of care, organization, and patient safety. For you as a healthcare professional, it offers a clear and structured approach to improving and ensuring the quality of care. This not only contributes to better care outcomes for your patients, but also to more efficient and smoother practice management.

The added value of practice accreditation

Every practice is obliged to provide responsible, effective, and safe care and to demonstrate this. Practice accreditation indicates that an independent organization has determined that your practice meets high quality and safety standards. During the certification process, the Plan-Do-Check-Act quality cycle is applied. This approach ensures that quality improvement is always a priority. A quality management system systematically monitors, controls, and improves care, so that you are constantly working to improve the quality of your care.

Reducing risks with a management system

Every organization faces risks. It is important for you to consider these risks, because they affect the well-being of your patients. It is therefore essential to actively work on quality and safety in order to manage these risks. Practice accreditation and system assessment follow a structured approach, focusing on a good balance between theory and practice. Certification focuses on the implementation of the management system within your practice. Our auditors involve employees at all levels, so that everyone plays a role in monitoring quality. This people-oriented approach, which we call People Based Auditing , ensures that your team feels responsible and contributes jointly to the success of your practice.

Practice accreditation in 5 steps

Before your practice starts the certification process, thorough preparation is required. DEKRA assesses your system independently. If you need advice, you can contact one of the consultants affiliated with the DEKRA partner network .

Are you, like many practices before you, ready for practice accreditation? At DEKRA, we work according to the step-by-step plan below.

Step 1: Standard selection

Select the standard you want to be certified against

DEKRA assesses, among other things:

ISO 9001 (for pharmacies, the LHV standard 'Pharmaceutical care provided by pharmacists' is included as a field standard)
HKZ Small Organizations
ISO for Care and Welfare ( NEN-EN 15224 )