Cancer Services Quality Management
Regulations and compliance requirements for the cancer services sector have dramatically increased over the past few years.
Multiple regulations, bodies and groups such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC), The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000, (IR(ME)R 2000), and the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), all specify a number of requirements be put in place to achieve regulatory compliance and sufficient quality standards. These requirements include documented and easily accessible and controlled Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's), frequent and scheduled internal audits, non-conformances and issues which can be easily logged, essential assets calibrated and maintained with full documented history and areas of risk that are able to be identified and acted upon before they occur. Staff are also required to be competent in carrying out their tasks through documented training schedules for each member of staff.
Traditionally, each of these requirements would be managed via different systems, such as paper/electronic documents, spread-sheets and paper audits etc, with little or no integration between each of them.
To help you overcome this, and effectively manage your quality system processes and procedures, Gael's Q-Pulse is a fully integrated electronic Quality Management Solution (eQMS) that will help Cancer Service organisations significantly decrease the time spent on day-to-day compliance activities. These activities include document control, auditing, incidents and non conformance, suppliers, corrective and preventive actions (CA/PA) and staff training, increasing the time spent enhancing patient-focused services.
Karen Postlethwaite, Clinical Governance Manager (Radiotherapy), Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Trust, said: "Through Q-Pulse, we can easily achieve what is required of us with much less effort, improving the integrity and timeliness of our internal and external reporting and allowing us more time to enhance the productivity of our Department as a whole.”
Contact us now to find out how we can help you achieve regulatory compliance through Gael’s quality and risk management solutions.