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Resources
Overviews of quality management The Essence of Total Quality Management. Second edition. John Bank. Prentice Hall, 2000 Chapters include:
Operations Management: Managing Quality, Efficient, and Responsiveness to Customers. Chapter 18 in Contemporary Management. Gareth R. Jones and Jennifer M. George. McGraw-Hill Irwin 2003. Total Quality Management: an Overview Dale, Boaden and Lascelles , Chapter 1 in Managing Quality, Second Edition. Ed Barrie G Dale. Prentice Hall 1994.
Practical tools for TQM and TQI Quality management tools and techniques: an overview. B.G. Dale, H.S. Bunney and P. Shaw. Chapter 17 in Managing Quality ed by Barrie G. Dale Prentice Hall Keeping Track: Measurements of Improvement, Progress and Success. Chapter 7 in The Leaders Handbook, A Guide to Inspiring your people and managing the daily workflow. Peter R Scholtes. McGraw Hill 1998 The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook. An implementation guide for process improvement teams. 2002. Peter S Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh. McGraw-Hill Business Excellence Framework Business Excellence Framework This is a framework for innovation, improvement and long term success, applicable to all organisations, large and small, private and public, whatever their purpose. The Framework has been designed to assist organisations to measure current performance and build a pathway to long-term success. Australian Service Excellence Standards The Australian Service Excellence Standards is an internationally accredited quality improvement program funded by the Department of Commuinities and Social Inclustion in South Australian. It is a generic quality and continuous improvement management tool. It can be applied to a wide and diverse range of human services, both government and non-government. It contains the requirements necessary to meet legislative and other standards, and provides a developmental approach to continuous improvement, change management and benchmarking across ‘like’ areas or services. Australian and New Zealand Standards ISO 9000 series ISO 9000 Series standards The ISO 9000 series standards are international standards designed to help organisations establish quality management systems. Industry standards (and accrediting) organisations The Australian Council on Health Care Standards The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, whose role is to improve the quality of health care in Australia through continually reviewing performance, assessment and accreditation. The ACHS provides a variety of products and services for accreditation and quality improvement for the full range of health care organisations. Two widely used products are EQuIP and POS
Quality Improvement Performance Quality Innovation Performance (QIP) is a not-for-profit health promotion charity with more than twenty years’ experience in community service accreditation and more than ten years’ experience in primary and secondary health care accreditation and related services. QIP formed in 2012 as a result of a merger between Australia’s four major primary care accreditation bodies:
Australian University Quality Agencies he Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is Australia's independent national regulator of the higher education sector. National Childcare Accreditation Council The National Childcare Accreditation Council is responsible for the implementation and administration of the Quality Assurance (QA) systems for family day care schemes, outside school hours care services and long day care centres across Australia. The current systems are:
Government and agency standards and accrediting organisations (ando others) Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency The Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency (the Agency) is the independent body responsible for managing the accreditation and ongoing supervision of Commonwealth-funded aged care homes. Out-of-Home care standards. NSW Office of the Children's Guardian The out-of-home care and adoption standards have been merged to create one set of standards which support a dual accreditation process for agencies choosing to provide both statutory out-of-home care and adoption services. Home Care Standards The Standards draw together the differing standards across jurisdictions and the Commonwealth into a single set of quality standards and have the benefit of reducing the administrative burden for service providers. The Standards took effect in the following aged care services on 1 August 2013:
Audit New Directions For Internal Audit1998. Australian National Audit Office. Internal audit is an appraisal activity, established as a service to the organisation. This guide outlines principles for achieving better outputs and outcomes for internal audit, and also provides practical guidance to determine the most appropriate role for internal audit. It details a simple five-step approach which would ensure the internal audit function operates in accordance with the principles of better practice. Organisations for quality American Society for Quality The Society advances individual, organizational and community excellence worldwide through learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange
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