NEWS: Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services Topic
Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services
17 Oct 2025
Webinar: Quality Management in Long-Term Care: Insights from France
GOLTC Quality Improvement Interest Group webinar How can quality in long-term care be assessed in ways that are both rigorous and meaningful? France’s Haute Autorité de Sante (HAS), the national authority responsible for evaluating and improving quality in health, social and medico social care, has played a central role in shaping evaluation frameworks for nursing […]
02 Aug 2025
GOLTC webinar recording: Making quality visible: balancing safety and clinical indicators and patient-reported outcome indicators and narratives
GOLTC Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care Interest Group webinar Date: 2 July 2025 Time: 9:00-10:30 BST (10:00 – 11.30 CET) How do we balance safety and clinical indicators, patient-reported outcome measures and narratives? This session explores how indicators and narrative approaches can be used to monitor, compare, and improve the quality of long-term […]
05 Jun 2025
New open access book: “The Care Dividend: Why and How Countries Should Invest in Long-Term Care”
“The Care Dividend: Why and How Countries Should Invest in Long-Term Care” is an extensive volume published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and sets out the arguments, grounded in theory and evidence, for increased public investment in high-quality, universally accessible long-term care. Strong long-term care systems benefit everyone: households, economies, health systems, […]
03 Apr 2025
GOLTC webinar recording: Ownership, Asymmetric Information, and Quality of Care for the Elderly: Evidence from US Nursing Homes During COVID-19 Pandemic
GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar Date: 17 March 2025 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT The pandemic has shown that in many countries there is much to do to improve the quality of life and safety of people living in residential care facilities, and a tool available to government are regulatory and market […]