QIS2012 - The Standard for Health Management Programmes and Interventions is the new Standard developed by QISMET which will be universally applicable and therefore offers providers of newer programmes the opportunity to apply for certification
QISMET is to get up to £335,000 to test and develop innovative approaches to improve health and wellbeing, Care Services Minister Paul Burstow announced.
The development of QIS2012 has been undertaken as a result of widespread consultation QISMET carried out with stakeholders as part of QISMET’s inception in 2008. The resulting intelligence gathered from the consultation identified that although there were a growing number of different self management and self care programmes being developed there was no nationally agreed existing standard against which the newer programmes and other types of health management interventions could be audited. It was also recognised that some providers were already providing more than one type of health management intervention.
Therefore, QISMET’s purpose and aim in developing a universal standard (QIS2012) and certification is to assure the delivery of consistently high quality self management and self care support services and other types of health management intervention within local systems of care.
QIS2012 is a practical tool with clear observable and measurable requirements. It enables providers to benchmark themselves and, by being certificated against the Standard, to demonstrate that they meet the core requirements for high quality service provison for the breadth of self management and other health management interventions they offer.
QISMET published the Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME) Quality Standard on Monday 14 November 2011 - World Diabetes Day.
The DSME Quality Standard is a practical tool with clear observable and measurable requirements. It enables providers to benchmark themselves and, by being certificated against the Standard, to demonstrate that they meet their responsibility in relation to the very first NICE Diabetes quality statement that,
“People with diabetes and/or their carers receive a structured educational programme that fulfils the nationally agreed criteria from the time of diagnosis, with annual review and access to ongoing education.”
QISMET is now accepting applications for certification against the DSME Quality Standard.
Download the DSME Quality Standard FREE.
How to apply for certification
See the pricing structure for QISMET certifcation
See more about the NICE Diabetes in Adults Quality Standard
QISMET currently certificates against Stepping Stones to Quality (SS2Q) which is the prototype quality mark certification scheme developed is for lay led self management programmes delivered under licence from Stanford University, commonly known in England as the Expert Patients Programme.
SS2Q and the ‘early bird’ SS2Q certification offer (open until 31 December 2011).
See more about how to apply for certification against SS2Q
SS2Q is currently being used in the West Midlands where a number of PCTs have made certification via QISMET a criterion for commissioning organisations that provide CDSMP courses. The first organisations to apply for certification have been audited and have all successfully achieved certification. See more on the West Midlands Project
Organisations that achieve certification will carry the QISMET quality mark pictured here. QISMET's aim is that over time this will become as familiar within the self management education arena as the BSI kitemark is to industry.
