The Indian Professional Nurses Association has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the formulation of a fresh national accreditation policy for ensuring adherence of best patient to doctor in all the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) hospitals.
The petition has been filed through Advocate-on-Record Dhiraj Philip Abraham. The petition averred that the basis for filing the petition are replies received from respondents to the RTI applications filed by the petitioner organization.
The petition further seeks directions from the Quality Council of India and National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers, to place on record the documents which it scrutinizes before granting accreditation to hospitals.
The petitioner submitted that the Quality Council of India had stated that they don’t have any norms that specify ratio of nurse to patient and that no study or survey has been conducted to monitor the quality of nursing care, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
The petition stated that there is a need to constitute a committee to monitor the quality of patient care, patient safety and patient satisfaction, including an assessment of patient to doctor and patient to nurse ratio.
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The petition stated that there is also a need for NABH to conduct surprise visits along with pre-informed inspections in hospitals to monitor if the safety standards are being complied by said hospitals.
The petition said that it is extremely concerning to note that the apex accreditation body in the country does not give the requisite importance to the norms related to patient-doctor and patient-nurse ratio while granting NABH accreditation.
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