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UK lacking on rehab accreditation

Published 18/07/2008

A UK rehabilitation company has looked to Canada for accreditation, because the UK does not have its own equivalent accreditation system.

Kynixa has announced that it is the first rehabilitation company in Europe to achieve accreditation from the Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

Based in Canada, CARF has been setting international standards in rehabilitation since 1966, they also accredit organisations in the US, and South America. The rehabilitation provider approached CARF because there was not an equivalent accreditation scheme in the UK.

Rehabilitation is moving forward at a rapid pace within the UK making it essential for a system to be in place to provide a frame of reference within which insurers and lawyers can make decisions with confidence.

A Kynixa spokesperson said: “CARF is internationally renowned, so it is a way of us showing that we are constantly trying to better our services.

“The current UK standards are self audited and are for individual practitioners not the organisations.

“I understand that there is work being carried out to create UK accreditation systems, but this could take a while.”

Mandy Kelly, Rehabilitation Performance Manager at Kynixa who was involved in gaining accreditation said: “As the first medical rehabilitation case management organisation in Europe to obtain this accreditation, we are setting a new industry standard,” said

“The difference about CARF is that it’s an external audit and assessment. We’ve been assessed against internationally agreed standards.”

This article has been reprinted with permission of the Claims Standards Council

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