ROLE OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS IN ADMINISTRATION OF FEDERAL HEALTH INSTITUTION

Abstract

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a new approach to administration of an institution aimed to achieve long-lasting success due to maximum efficiency of its activity with minimal production costs and steady quality of output products. Practically it took 80 years to realize the necessity to combine two systems of management: of activity and of quality, to meet customers’ requirements. Today quality of medical help is identified as a main goal of state policy in the field of health care. Health institutions need a system of quality management, providing conditions when the quality demanded by a customer is ensured at each step of medical care delivering. Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics is among narrow minority of medical institutions which have a quality management system of medical care certified according to International Standard ISO 9001:2000. Implementation of this system based on TQM requirements permitted the administration and the staff of the Institute to proceed from direct control and maintenance of quality of medical care to assured permanent improving of quality thereby promoting a competitiveness of the institution.