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We've awarded bronze, silver, gold or platinum accreditation to 59 of its services – which accounts for 92 per cent of the total number of services it provides - as part of an annual review. 

Our accreditation programme demonstrates that a team or service provides consistent and continuously improving high quality care which always puts patients at the heart of everything they do. It also provides assurance that there is standardisation in the quality of care across the trust and enables teams to celebrate and share their successes.

To achieve accreditation, a team or service must undergo an internal review of the care and support they provide, which includes regular self-assessment using a digital quality wheel, record keeping dip-testing and annual peer review. The trust’s accreditation programme is in line with national NHS guidance.

Most recently, the Discharge Home to Assess team at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital were awarded silver accreditation. The trust provides care and support for people from birth throughout every stage of their lives and the full list of accredited teams and services spans across children’s and adult services.

Keren Hall, Assistant Director of Nursing and Quality, said: “Congratulations to all those teams who have shown that they provide continuously improving high quality care to their patients, their families and carers.

“We recognise the dedication and commitment of everyone working in our teams to ensure that they always put patients first and continue to provide excellent care in sometimes challenging circumstances. 

“We will be supporting those teams who are continuing to work towards accreditation, and look forward to accrediting them in the near future.”

The full list of accredited services are: 

Adult services
Bronze

• Danesbury Neuro Rehabilitation Unit
• Lower Lea Valley ICT
• Clinical Navigators
• Lymphoedema

Silver

• Discharge Home to Assess
• Stort Valley and Villages ICT
• Welwyn and Hatfield ICT
• North Herts and Royston ICT
• Discharge Home to Assess
• Adult Bladder and Bowel service
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Tissue Viability
• East & North Diabetes
• East & North Podiatry
• Hertfordshire Integrated Diabetes Service
• West Herts Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
• Community Neurological and Early Supported Discharge team

Gold

• Herts & Essex Hospital
• QVM Hospital
• Specialist Palliative Care
• Inreach Team
• Integrated Community Respiratory Service
• Integrated Heart Failure Service
• Musculo-skeletal service
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Leg Ulcer service
• Adult Speech and Language Therapy

Children and Young People’s services
Bronze

• Broxbourne Health Visiting team
• Dacorum Health Visiting team
• Hertsmere Health Visiting team
• St Albans and Harpenden Health Visiting team
• Special School Nursing

Silver

• Community Paediatricians
• East Health Visiting team
• Stevenage Health Visiting team
• Watford and Three Rivers Health Visiting team
• North Herts and Stevenage School Health Nursing team
• Children's Community Nursing team
• Children's Hearing service
• Step2

Gold

• North Health Visiting team
• Welwyn and Hatfield Health Visiting team
• East School Health Nursing team
• South School Health Nursing team
• West School Health Nursing team
• Asthma and Wheeze service
• Children's Continence service
• Sickle Cell team
• Young People's Health Transitional service
• Children's Eye service
• Special Care Dental service
• Children's Therapies
• CYP Child Wellbeing Practitioners
• CYP SEND Mental Health Support team
• PALMS
• CSAIS Hertfordshire and West Essex
• CSAIS Norfolk
• CSAIS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Platinum

• CSAIS Suffolk