The anaesthetics departments at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) have been presented with plaques to honour their success in earning Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) from the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA).
The accreditation covers services at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital, Melton Mowbray Hospital and Loughborough Hospital, and the plaques will be installed across all five locations.
Prea Ramasamy, Consultant Anaesthetist and ACSA Lead at UHL, said: “This has been a major journey to meet the high standards needed, and we wouldn’t have been able to achieve it without the contributions, commitment and resilience of colleagues across our sites, and UHL in the community. We are one team, and this is a proud day for us all.”
ACSA is a comprehensive process for quality improvement through peer review, covering all aspects of anaesthetics services, and requiring adherence to 160 evidence-based standards which are set and regularly updated by the RCOA. Achieving the accreditation shows that the departments have been assessed as providing services of a high and consistent quality.
Achieving this accreditation has taken several years, and has involved the commitment of colleagues from across the whole multi-disciplinary team.