SOFIHA - Useful contacts

Useful contacts in International Healthcare Accreditation, Travel Health, Medical Tourism, Risk Management etc.

Faculty of Travel Medicine, RCPSGlasgow

The multidisciplinary Faculty of Travel Medicine was founded in December 2005. It is based in Glasgow, UK, and is a Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPDGlasgow), which was founded in 1599.

http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/FellowsandMembers/BenefitsandServices/Travel+Medicine/

International Medical Travel Association (IMTA)

The IMTA seeks to represent the interests of medical travellers and the medical-travel industry, including both the healthcare providers and those who facilitate medical travel.

See http://www.imtjonline.com/zine/features/imta-column

HealthCare Trip

Based in the USA, HealthCare Trip, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit service of HealthCare Tourism International, was started on April 1, 2006 as a 501 (C) (3) non-profit portal and service that connects all people interested in health care abroad with safe and effective information and accreditation on health care abroad.

See http://www.healthcaretrip.org/

Medical Tourism Association

The Medical Tourism Association is made up of the top international hospitals, insurers, educational institutions, other affiliated companies, and industries for the common purpose of increasing the awareness and utilization of overseas hospitals for medical care.

See http://www.medicaltravelauthority.com/

UKAF (United Kingdom Accreditation Forum)

The United Kingdom Accreditation Forum is an established network of organisations with the intentions of sharing experience, good practice and new ideas around the methodology for such programmes, covering issues such as developing healthcare quality standards, implementation of standards within healthcare organisations, assessment by peer review and exploration of the peer review techniques to include the recruitment, training, monitoring and evaluation of peer reviewers and the mechanisms for awards of accredited status to organisations.

http://www.ukaf.org.uk/

ISQua (International Society for Quality in Health Care)

Currently based in Australia, but moving to Europe (Republic of Ireland) in the near future, ISQua is an independent organisation with members in over 70 countries. Founded in 1985, the group works to provide services to guide health professionals, providers, researchers, agencies, policy makers and consumers, to achieve excellence in healthcare delivery to all people, and to continuously improve the quality and safety of care.

http://www.isqua.org.au/

Medical Protection Society (MPS)

The Medical Protection Society, a non-profit medical indemnity group headquartered in London, UK, provides indemnifying services for doctors working in many other countries around the world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia, and in doing so also helps to reduce risks to their employing hospitals.

http://www.medicalprotection.org/uk

Wikipedia

An excellent repository of knowledge. Wikipedia has value in just about every area of human knowledge, including very good pages on medical tourism and international healthcare accreditation.