NACS - National Accreditation Solution

The NACS system is designed to support the Danish Healthcare Quality Programme, and is developed in close co-operation with the Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Healthcare (IKAS).

IKAS – as well as the Danish accreditation standards – is approved by ISQua, the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.

The NACS system is designed to support:

• Configuration of standards and indicators
• Distribution of standards and indicators to units or wards within a hierarchical organisational structure
• Concurrent evaluation or assessment according to a set of standards
• References to guidelines and references.
• Administration of standards and indicators
• Collection of measures necessary to assess a certain indicator (patient record auditing)
• Auditing/surveying
• Reporting of results

The NACS system is designed to support quality assessment within all health-related sectors in Denmark, supporting quality assessment at the General Practitioners as well as within hospitals, private pharmacies, and municipalities.

The main obstacle within quality assessment is to ensure a safe and functional way of distributing the standards and indicators to a number of different healthcare units. Hence, the main goal is to supply a solution to this problem.

In NACS, this obstacle has been addressed and the result, a concept of distribution, is illustrated in the below figure.

Features

• Supporting administration of standards and indicators
• Configurable forms for collection of measures, necessary to assess indicators
• Security enables the organisational units to shield their results from other units.

Benefits

• Distribution of standards and indicators
• Reporting of results
• Accreditation of a number of organisations