{"id":29815,"date":"2026-05-11T19:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:34:54","slug":"moh-announces-quality-audit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/moh-announces-quality-audit-system\/","title":{"rendered":"MOH announces quality audit system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-to improve care and accountability <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-by Kimberly Giddings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health is rolling out a new quality audit system\u00a0aimed at strengthening patient care and accountability across the public health system.\u00a0This initiative will see doctors and nurses being monitored\u00a0to ensure established treatment protocols are being followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system is expected to add another layer of accountability for healthcare workers\u00a0while improving patient care.\u00a0Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says this will help strengthen the country&#8217;s healthcare system\u00a0by addressing gaps in treatment and improving standard of care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;So our internal audit or quality audit, clinical audit,\u00a0they would go out, pull random charts, check the charts,\u00a0see whether or not the patient has been receiving the care that they should be receiving,\u00a0and if there&#8217;s a gap, then they would point that out to the physician and the nurses and so forth,\u00a0and they&#8217;ll give them a couple of months to get these things corrected. \u00a0If it is found that healthcare professionals require additional training,\u00a0recommendations will be made to improve their performance,&#8221;<\/strong> he explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony says doctors and nurses will be also held accountable in cases\u00a0where negligence is determined to have contributed to patient deaths,\u00a0particularly maternal deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;So that has been our approach to it,\u00a0and for the nurses, if there are any negligence on their part,\u00a0then they go before the nursing council.\u00a0And in extreme cases, you can have your license pulled,\u00a0and you&#8217;re prevented from practicing in Guyana,&#8221; <\/strong>he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, the ministry has increased training for healthcare professionals\u00a0to better manage maternal patients, and this, the minister says, will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-to improve care and accountability -by Kimberly Giddings The Ministry of Health is rolling out a new quality audit system\u00a0aimed at strengthening patient care and accountability across the public health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,350],"tags":[488,370,456,412,405],"class_list":["post-29815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-health","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29817,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions\/29817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}