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NABH MITRA PROGRAM – Launch

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LAUNCH OF NABH MITRA EMPANELMENT PROGRAMME (MEP)

The NABH MITRA Empanelment Programme has been officially launched to build a nationwide network of verified professionals and organisations (“MITRAs”) who will support hospitals with NABH Accreditation, Certification, and digital health transformation, especially across Tier 2, 3, and 4 cities in India.

The last date to submit applications for empanelment is October 10,2025

About the Programme

The initiative offers a structured, transparent framework for MITRAs—trusted companions to hospitals—who will guide healthcare organisations through quality improvement and digital enablement in line with NABH standards. Empanelled MITRAs will be listed on the NABH website with verified credentials and areas of expertise.

Categories of MITRAs

Digital MITRA: Supports hospitals in implementing NABH Digital Health Standards and IT enablement through structured digital health consultancy. Digital MITRA category has additional training and experience requirements

Organisational MITRAs: Support hospitals for both Full Accreditation and Entry-Level Certification.

Individual MITRAs: Independently support hospitals mainly for Entry-Level Certification.

Who Can Apply:

Individual MITRAs: Qualified professionals with at least one successful accreditation or certification support project and one NABH-certified professional (current assessors not eligible).

Organisational MITRAs: Registered companies, LLPs, trusts, societies, or proprietorship entities operational for at least one year, with experience supporting minimum three hospitals through accreditation or certification. Must have at least two NABH-certified professionals (current NABH assessors not eligible).

Application Process & Fees

i. Apply via the NABH online portal by October 10, 2025.
ii. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews and required training.
iii.Empanelment fee for a three-year period: ₹20,000 + GST (Individual MITRA), ₹50,000 + GST (Organisational MITRA).
iv.Training program charges: ₹25,000 + GST for MITRA, ₹15,000 + GST for Digital MITRA (paid after selection)

Additional Information

i. MITRAs will play a key role in enabling hospitals to achieve NABH standards and strengthen India’s healthcare quality framework
ii. Empanelment does not imply endorsement or financial association by NABH.
iii.Maintaining high standards, transparency, and ethical conduct is compulsory.

Download NABH Concept Note

Source: https://portal.nabh.co/Announcement/MEP_Concept.pdf

Industry Update – NABH Notification Reg the Name of Healthcare Organisations

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NABH Notification: Guidelines on Naming of Healthcare Organizations (HCOs)

The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) has issued a directive to ensure that the names of Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) accurately reflect the services they provide.

Key Points:

  • HCO names must clearly communicate the nature of services available within the facility.
  • Misleading names suggesting specialized or super-specialty care must be avoided unless those services are actually and verifiably available.
  • Misrepresentation through the name of the facility is strongly discouraged and may lead to adverse decisions.
  • The name used in NABH applications must match the name on the registration certificate.

Purpose:

  • To maintain transparency, trust, and clarity for patients and the general public.

Action Required:

  • HCOs are requested to review and, if necessary, modify their current naming conventions to comply with these guidelines.

NABH Notification is given below :

Source: https://nabh.co/

Industry Update – Programme on Implementation of NABH 1st Edition Digital Health Standards for Hospitals

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Programme on Implementation of NABH 1st Edition Digital Health Standards for Hospitals

NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Care Providers) is organizing 2 days training on ” NABH 1st Edition Digital Health Standards for Hospitals” in an online mode

Objective of the Programme: The objective of this programme is to provide guidance to healthcare providers, healthcare administrators and Healthcare IT personnel on implementation of NABH standards

The aim of the programme is to develop Internal Counsellors within the hospitals for helping them to work towards implementation of Digital Health Standards for quality and patient safety, achieving accreditation and maintaining the same.

Who Should attend: Owners of healthcare organization, CTO`s of the Hospitals, Healthcare IT personnel, HMIS and EMR product owners/employees, medical professional, nursing professional, medical administrators, para medical staff, etc. NABH encourage to keep the group a mix of professionals from diverse healthcare background.

Registration: Click the link https://portal.nabh.co/EventDetails.aspx?id=271#gsc.tab=0

Please click on “Click to Register” on the preferred batch. After you register, Login with the registered credentials, go to Education and Training, go to the programme you have registered for and “Click to Register” and pay the registration fees.

Registration fee (non-refundable & non-changeable) is Rs. 8,000/- + GST @ 18% (total Rs. 9,440/).

The fees would include Guidebook of 1st Edition Digital Health Standards for Hospitals course material. It is a nonresidential programme.

Program Schedule : Virtual Mode
Dates – April 26-27, 2025
May 17-18,2025

Limited Seats are available and will be allotted on ‘first cum first serve’ basis

For any queries please contact:

Mr. Vikash Chaudhary
Assistant Director
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)
Quality Council of India
ITPI Building, 5th Floor,
4 – A, Ring Road, I P Estate,New Delhi – 110002
Tel: +91 11 42600622
Fax: +91 11 233 23 415
Email: vikash@nabh.co

Source: https://nabh.co/

Industry update : NABH GUIDEBOOK FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN HEALTHCARE

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NABH GUIDEBOOK FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN HEALTHCARE

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) has been developing quality healthcare standards . NABH standards have always focused on creating an ecosystem for quality and safety of the services delivered in the healthcare organizations.

As a step towards addressing the biggest challenge of 21st century i.e. climate change and sustainability, NABH has developed a simple checklist to guide NABH accredited and certified healthcare organizations to achieve climate change adaption, resilience and sustainability.

This cohesive document includes essential of concept of sustainability in healthcare, guidance for implementation and strategic framework. To motivate healthcare organizations, industry best practices are also showcased in the document.

This document along with a self-assessment checklist is available for free download in NABH website http://www.nabh.co/

Click here to read the guidebook with a self assessment checklist

Source: http://www.nabh.co/

Workshop on GCP by NABH

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Education/Interactive Workshop on
Good Clinical Trial Practices (GCP)

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Care (NABH) is organizing one day training programme on Good Clinical Trial Practices (GCP) through virtual platform

Objective of the Programme

The objective of this programme is to provide guidance to Ethics Committee members/Investigators/research staffs on implementation of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in order to improve the overall clinical trial practices in India.

Who should attend?

Clinical research professionals, Investigators, Contract Research Organizations (CROs), nursing professional, Ethics committee members, Clinical research staff, etc.

Registration:

The registration can be done by filling the registration form at website www.nabh.co.  

Registration fee (non-refundable & non-changeable) is Rs. 4,000/- + GST@ 18% (Total Rs. 4720/-) per participant. 

Limited Seats are available and will be allotted on ‘first cum first serve’ basis.

Programme Timings: 02.00 pm to 06.00 pm

For registration and any other related query please contact:  
Ms. Varsha Srivastava
Assistant Director | NABH
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers
Quality Council of India | www.qcin.org
ITPI Building, 5th Floor, 4-A,
I P Estate, Ring Road, New Delhi – 110002, India
Work: +91-11-42600621
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Workshop Dates and Link for Registration

28 Apr 2024 Timing 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm Click Here To Register
26 May 2024 Timing 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm Click Here To Register

Source: https://portal.nabh.co/EventDetails.aspx?id=221#gsc.tab=0

Announcement from NABH

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NABH FEE REMITTANCE - Announcement from NABH

NABH has released an important notice on January 4,2024 on Fee Remittance by all applicant / Accredited / Certified Health Care Organisations under all programs of NABH

Many Healthcare Organisations associated with NABH are still making direct payment to accounts of Quality Council of India – NABH. Due to this, NABH is facing difficulty in reconciling the amounts received directly as the details of payment are also not updated by the respective HCOs in their online portal.

To avoid unnecessary wastage of time and manpower in tracking the payments, NABH advises its stakeholders to make payments only through the online portal using the Payment Gateway so that the payments are appropriately tracked for convenience of all the parties

To facilitate the Healthcare Organisations to reconcile the fee payment status, NABH has requested all the
HCOs to follow the below steps with immediate effect:

  1. The HCOs are advised to login into their HCO account on the NABH portal for making payments through payment gateway via credit card/debit card/net banking.
  2. In no case HCOs shall deposit cash/cheque/DD directly into any of the accounts of Quality Council of
    India.
  3. In case the HCO has no other option but Bank Transfer (NEFT/RTGS), the payment shall be made
    after seeking approval from NABH secretariat. It shall be the responsibility of HCO to update the
    transaction details like Unique Transaction Reference (UTR) Number, Date of Transaction, Transaction
    Amount, etc on the NABH Portal under the Make Payment category and inform NABH that the Payment
    was done and get the receipts generated for the payments made.
  4. The HCOs are also requested to ensure that the payment details with respect to fee payments of
    current and previous accreditation cycles have been updated on the NABH portal account of the HCO,
    if not done earlier.
  5. Non updation of fee payment details on the portal may result into non-credit of the amounts and
    the HCO may be liable for adverse decision and repayment as per rules.
  6. All HCOs are to ensure that no direct offline payments are made to any account of Quality Council
    of India (QCI)

Notice issued by NABH is given below for reference:

Source:https://nabh.co/

Announcement from NABH

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QUALITY SETU

NABH announced that QCI and all its boards are introducing an innovative solution for addressing the queries & concerns promptly and transparently through “Quality Setu”, an integrated QCI portal designed to streamline the NABH helpdesk/complaints redressal process.

Quality Setu is a unified platform for all boards & divisions of QCI that will bridge and synergize the flow of information for its users.

It will also assist users to search for information regarding various schemes, certifications, accreditations, assessments, trainings and other projects, administered or run by the Boards & Divisions of QCI.

Quality Setu will also act as a single-window for all queries & concerns where users can track online, the progress of their engagement with the respective Board and Division, in their personalized section through the app or its portal

The system also has an AI-based Chatbot that guides users in their search and also assist them in resolving their queries and concerns in quick time.

From January 1, 2024, onwards, all queries and concerns pertaining to NABH will be exclusively addressed through the “Quality Setu” portal. This transition is aimed at enhancing efficiency, speedy resolution and ensuring a seamless experience for our stakeholders.

Please access the “Quality Setu” portal using the following website link
Website link: https://qualitysetu.qcin.org

Source: https://nabh.co/

NABH – LATEST NOTIFICATIONS

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Latest Notifications Issued by NABH on Hospital Accreditation Standards

NOTIFICATION FOR SMALL HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

NABH has started implementation of 3rdedition accreditation standards for SHCOs w.e.f. 1st March 2023.

In view of multiple representations received from various stakeholders and our endeavour to continue conducting comprehensive assessments of SHCOs, NABH has decided to increase number of man-days for conducting the mid-term surveillance assessments of SHCOs under 3rd edition, from current 1*1 (1 assessor for 1 day) to 2* 2 (2 assessors for 2 days) with immediate effect.

There shall be no change in the number of man-days for final and re-assessments of SHCOs.

Source: https://nabh.co/Announcement/Notification%20for%20Change%20in%20Man-days%20for%20Surveillance%20assessment%20of%20SHCOs.pdf

NOTIFICATION FOR FEEDBACK ON 5th EDITION ACCREDITATION STANDARDS FOR HOSPITALS

NABH will soon be initiating drafting of 6th edition of Hospital Accreditation Standards in accordance with ISQua EEA Guidelines. You are requested to give feedback on the current NABH Standards i.e. 5th Edition. Your feedback/ inputs will add value in developing new edition of Hospitals standards.

The comments are invited on the following link.

Feedback form: https://forms.gle/5TXp5PsymacUR3Mu8

The last date for receiving feedback is 15th May, 2023.

Source: https://nabh.co/Announcement/Notification%20for%20Feedback%20on%205th%20Edition%20Standard.pdf

NABH Notification

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NABH – DIGITAL HEALTH ACCREDITATION STANDARDS – (DRAFT)

NABH has released the Draft standard – Digital Health Accreditation Standards – 1st Edition.

NABH invites comments, suggestions and feedback in the draft document from public at large, including the stakeholders like hospitals the other clinical establishments, industry, consumer groups etc.

The comments may be shared on the form within 20 days of publication of this notice on the website.

Click here to read the Draft standard

Please find the Link for google form link to submit the feedback.

https://forms.gle/wSCKTJnfbDwvnase7

The last date for receiving comments is 2nd May 2023

Source:https://nabh.co/Announcement/Public%20Notice%20for%20Digital%20Health%20Standard%201st%20Edition.pdf

QCI’s Virtual Trainings

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QCI’s Virtual Trainings on NABCB Accreditation – ISO/IEC 17020, ISO/IEC 17065 & ISO/IEC 17021

Quality Council of India (QCI) is an autonomous body under the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. QCI is the apex national body and provides accreditation and other related services through its constituent Boards viz. National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH), National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), National Board for Quality Promotion (NBQP).  

Training and Capacity Building (TCB), an independent Cell under the ambit of QCI has been regularly conducting trainings for the laboratories, TIC Sector, and industries

Latest training program details of TCB are given below:

Source: https://tcb.qcin.org/

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