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Maintaining Quality:the Accreditation Experience

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This paper describes the North Thames (East) accreditation process and considers its impac1: on the Library at Whipps Cross Hospital. It concludes that accreditation is a valuable way of not only maintaining quality but promoting it.

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  1. Whipps Cross Hospital, Forest Healthcare Trust, Whipps Cross Road, London, Ell 1NR, UK

    Anne FitzGerald

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  1. British Medical Association, London, UK

    Tony McSéan (Librarian) (Librarian)

  2. United Medical and Dental School of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London, UK

    John van Loo (Librarian) (Librarian)

  3. British Medical Association Library, London, UK

    Euphemia Coutinho (Administrator) (Administrator)

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FitzGerald, A. (1995). Maintaining Quality:the Accreditation Experience. In: McSéan, T., van Loo, J., Coutinho, E. (eds) Health Information — New Possibilities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0093-9_18

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