2014 Quality Account published
Chief Executive Officer Richard Jones welcomes you to the Viapath Quality Accounts for 2014.
I am proud to introduce the Viapath Quality Account for 2014. This is now the second year we have shared our Quality Account publicly as a demonstration of Viapath’s commitment to quality and transparency.
The national context to the publication of this Quality Account is the reaffirmation of the need to put patient quality at the centre of all NHS services in the light of the publication of the report of the Public Inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust chaired by Robert Francis QC.
This was followed by the report of the Pathology Quality Assurance Review chaired by Dr Ian Barnes after an incident at Sherwood Forest Hospitals where problems with Pathology quality assurance negatively impacted on a number of cancer patients.
Viapath shares Dr Barnes’ commitment to a ‘relentless focus on improvement, which champions the patient as a user and operates in a reflective and open manner, so that it can improve not only its own performance, but share its learning to benefit the rest of the NHS.’
