The New Zealand accreditation programme: not "re-inventing the wheel"

In some nine months, a remarkable development has occurred in New Zealand. During this period, a pilot Accreditation Programme has been established, four hospitals have been selected and their staff introduced to the programme and a co-ordinating framework has been developed. The ACHS has and will be supportive of these and subsequent developments. The ACHS expects to gain valuable information from this well-formulated pilot project.