The Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) has today been certified as a
provider of high quality health and social care information, receiving the
highly acclaimed stamp of approval from by The Information Standard scheme.
The IHAS certification includes the important stream of
information addressed to patients by its register of injectable cosmetic
providers www.TreatmentsYouCanTrust.org.uk.
Meeting the scheme criteria of producing safe and reliable health and
social care information, IHAS have been awarded The Information Standard
quality mark. This illustrates and reinforces to the public that its
information can be trusted.
According to a survey carried out by The Information
Standard,
the majority of the general public (72%) believe that they would be better
able to manage their own and their family’s health if they had quick and easy
access to health information they could trust. The Information Standard, which
is supported by the Department of Health, was launched to provide this kind of
assurance.
Angela Coulter PhD, Hon FFPH, Hon FRCGP, an independent
healthcare analyst who advises on the scheme, commented: “Organisations that
become certified members of the scheme, and therefore display The
Information Standard quality mark on their health information or social
care materials, have proven that they adhere to the very highest standards of
information production. The public can feel confident that if they see The
Information Standard quality mark on health and social care websites or
leaflets then the information can be trusted and relied upon.”
Sally Taber, Director of IHAS, and responsible for www.TreatmentsYouCanTrust.org.uk,
says of its certification: “We are pleased that our information for patients
and those who treat them has been recognised as being of high quality. We
always strive to give clear, objective, evidence-based information since a high
proportion of the independent healthcare providers and many patients rely on
us. The Register of those qualified to administer cosmetic injectables www.TreatmentsYouCanTrust.org.uk
is particularly important to patient safety and its message has to be clear and
unmistakable.”
Non-surgical cosmetic surgery news: 14 August 2012
