Criteria for registration of Hospital & Healthcare Consultants (NABH Standards) - Introduction

A number of consultants are helping various Hospitals and Healthcare (HAH) sector. The selection of a capable Consultant by an organization is important in ensuring that their management system is capable of meeting the planned objectives of the organization in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

Hospitals may cater to multi disciplinary activities where inputs are required from specialists in different areas. Therefore besides capable consultants, a consultant organization would require to have a capable Coordinator or Team Leader who would lead the team of various consultants and/or experts to provide a comprehensive guidance to the HAH and develop an effective system as per NABH guidelines.

Therefore the registration for Consultants has been developed at two levels -

Individual Consultants -
They may be individuals having requisite educational background
and experience/ expertise in their respective areas (details given in part A).
Consultant organizations -

Since some of the HAH require comprehensive inputs from different

specialized areas apart from the infrastructure backup, the Consultant organizations meeting the NRBPT criteria would be registered (details given in part B).

The above two-tier registration scheme would enable the prospective Consultant organizations to access the data-base of registered Individual Consultants.

Assessment Procedure
For Individual Consultants
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Desk top review of documents pertaining to education, experience, etc.
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Interview with the NRBPT panel of Consultant Examiners
For Consultant organizations

 

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Desk top review of documents pertaining to background of the organization, manpower, experience, etc.
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On site verification of office & interview of all the Consultants proposed to be used for NABH Accreditation Consultancy
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Mandatory registration of 50% of Consultants (NABH) working for the Firm.

   
   

 

 
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NRBPT C/O Quality Council of India , Institution of Engineers Building, IIndFloor, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi - 110002, India. Tel: 91-11-2337 9321, 2337 9260, 2337 0567 Fax: 91-11-2337 9621. Email:nrbpt@qcin.org