QM according to DIN EN 15224 / ISO 9001
Good Hospital Practice was launched in 1996. In the meantime, procedural instructions have been developed for many topics. For others, we still lack detailed descriptions. We believe that the gaps can only be closed with the co-operation of many experts.
The maintenance of procedural instructions must also be spread across more shoulders.
In order to advance the overall work, we have decided to release the texts under certain conditions. We ask for your co-operation on the documents.
We are looking for authors to sponsor individual procedural instructions. Who knows a topic so well that he/she can develop the text further or create a completely new one?Who provides sample solutions, including forms or flow charts?If you want to take part, you must first register. Please explain in an e-mail which topic you would like to work on.You will then receive editing rights for the corresponding procedural instructions from the administrator.Sponsors can refer to their own offers (seminars, services, products, website, etc.) in their documents.Log in under "user actions" (at the bottom of the navigation bar!) Get a password and assign yourself editing rights for your topic.
Read more at "Notes for authors"
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What is Good Hospital Practice GHP® and what is it not?
The Good Hospital Practice GHP® is a QM manual for the entire hospital. It integrates structural and process elements of the organisation, the professional groups, the specialist disciplines and the services that the hospital uses to fulfil its task. It integrates the traditional QM systems of occupational safety, hygiene, radiation protection, technical safety, pharmacy, transfusion medicine, etc. into the overall system. In this sense, it is comprehensive.
GHP® is a hospital-specific QM system that is based on DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and DIN EN 15224:2017. It interprets the requirements of the standard for quality presentation with regard to hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The Joint Commission International 2025 accreditation standard and the KTQ® catalogue 2021 were used and evaluated in the interpretation. Statutory requirements for hospital operations were also taken into account, in particular the G-BA's QM guideline.
No separate certification procedure is offered for GHP®. Anyone who designs a QM system with the GHP® VAs can submit to the auditor for a certificate in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015, DIN EN 15224:2017, accreditation by the JCI or the KTQ® visitor. In each case, conformity of the QM system with the certification or accreditation catalogues is achieved.
The "Good Hospital Practice" QM manual is divided into 9 chapters. Chapters 1 - 5 contain the description of the QM system. Chapters 6 - 9 are appendices with individual documents on treatment procedures (6), task descriptions (7), resources such as equipment, room, material and training (8) and a collection of laws, guidelines and directives, which we call the "Catalogue of Recognised Rules" (9).
Over 1,000 VAs, task descriptions and work instructions have currently been created for the GHP®. With forms, information sheets and other attachments, around 2600 documents are available or in the planning stage. Many of them are made available via this website.
You can participate in the development via this platform. If you want to know more, read the "Notes for authors"
A guide to setting up or converting standard-compliant QM systems in healthcare organisations in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and DIN EN 15224 by Dr Ulrich Paschen has been published by Beuth Verlag! The book contains the entire text of ISO 9001, supplemented by the additional passages of DIN EN 15224, applicable laws, regulations and guidelines, a commentary on the standards and a proposal for procedural instructions that are required for the sections.
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