*Dates: Monday, 18th February to Friday, 22nd February 2019

*Both Days Inclusive

National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) has been set up under the National Health Mission (NHM), Government of India to serve as an apex body for technical assistance to Ministry of Health & Family Welfare & State Governments.

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has rolled out National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) and Quality Improvement Division of NHSRC functions as secretariat for this initiative. The Quality standards are arranged around Eight Area of Concerns (Service Provision, Inputs, Patient Rights, Support Services, Clinical Services, Infection Control, Quality Management, and Outcome), Quality Standards, Measurable Elements and Departmental Checklists.

Public Health facilities are required to follow step wise process of baseline assessment, internal assessment, gap closure and external assessment for fulfilling the criteria laid down for State & National level certification. For conducting External Quality Certification, a pool of Assessors having knowledge, skills and experience of the NQAS assessment is being created.

Next such training of Five (5) days duration will be conducted from Monday, 18th February to Friday, 22nd February 2019. The successful participants who on successful proficiency evaluation will be empanelled for the external assessments of Public Healthcare facilities.

Applications are invited from interested professionals who meet the following Q.R.

Qualification: MBBS/BDS/AYUSH/BSc (Nursing) Degree/Full Time MHA or equivalent.

Experience: 10 years post qualification experience of direct care of patient/Programme Administration/Health Administration/ Health Consultancy/Relevant Teaching experience.

Age: 40 years and above with fitness to travel extensively, sometimes in difficult conditions as some public health facilities are located in difficult terrain.

Individuals who are passionate for Healthcare Quality.

There is no fee for the training; however successful candidate will undertake assessment of at least 5 public health facilities in a year as per request of NHSRC. Failing which the empanelment may be cancelled. An honorarium would be paid by the state for the man days spent in undertaking the certification assessment.

Registration Details

Registration will begin at 08:30 A.M. on Monday, 18th February 2019.

Training Timings: 09:00 A.M. 06:00 P.M. (all 5 days)

Attendance in all sessions is mandatory.

Venue of training:- NHSRC Theatre, NIHFW Campus, Munirika, New Delhi.

How to apply: Interested candidates are requested to send their CV in the following format by e-mail

at dr_arvindsrivastava@yahoo.co.in by Thursday, 7th February, 2019.

Only short listed candidates will be invited for the External Assessor training.

Format of short CV:

For Queries / Registration contact us at dr_arvindsrivastava@yahoo.co.in M +91-9555798055