Section 5.6 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Credentialing, Privileging and Clinical Competency
Verified qualifications, facility-level credentialing committees, specialty privileges and periodic competency review.
The issue
Credentialing must be a core requirement for safe practice. Every clinician should practice within verified qualifications, training, and approved scope of practice. The framework should require license verification, facility-level credentialing committees, specialty privileges, scope-of-practice enforcement, periodic competency review, and renewal tied to CPD and performance.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01License verification
- 02Facility-level credentialing committees
- 03Specialty privileges
- 04Scope-of-practice enforcement
- 05Periodic competency review
- 06Renewal tied to CPD and performance
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.