Purpose – Health systems are changing at variable rates. Periods of significant change can create new challenges or amplify existing barriers to accreditation program credibility and reliability. The purpose of this paper is to examine, during the transition to a new Australian accreditation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the views of community representatives participating in a large health service in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-sectional survey of 49 community representatives and interviews with a purposeful sample of representatives ( n...

Public disclosure is increasingly a requirement of accrediting agencies and governments. There are few published empirical evaluations of disclosure interventions that inform evidence-based implementation or policy. This study investigated the practices associated with the public disclosure of...