Scheme developer | National College + University | Estonian Society of Family Doctors | AQUA Institute + University | Dutch College of GPs | Ministry of Health | Andalusian Agency for Quality in Health | National Insurance House | Ministry of Health | RCGP + University |
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Year of introduction | 2009 | 2009 | 2003 | 2005 | 2004 | 2009 | 2006 | 2010 | 2011 |
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Compulsory | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
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Organisational issues | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Organisational/clinical/patient experience | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
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Number of criteria | 120 | 18 | 220 | 187 | 123 | 112 | 45 | 38 | 78 |
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Duration of scheme | 3 years | 1 year | 3 years | 3 years | 3 years | 5 years | 2 years | 1 year | 3 years |
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Cost of the scheme to the organisation, € | 1000 | Free | 2500 | 6240 | 800 | <3500 | 250 | Free | 2362 |
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Initial pilot stage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
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Inclusion of an improvement plan | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
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Digital or paper assessment | Both | Digital | Both | Both | Paper | Digital | Paper | Paper | Digital |
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Self-assessment or face to face | Face to face | Both | Both | Face to face | Face to face | Both | Both | Face to face | Self |
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Includes a practice visit | Yes | Yesb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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Benchmarking against other practices | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
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Publically reported | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
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Practices completed accreditation, % | ≤1 | 22.4 | 3 | 30 | ≤1 | ≤1 | 100 | 100 | 0 |