The Society for Quality for Healthcare in Nigeria is a not for profit organization registered in 2006 for the purpose of promoting and facilitating a culture of quality improvement, excellence and leadership in the most efficient and effective manner in the area of Healthcare.
The society has the following aims and objectives:
- To promote the principles and practice of quality improvement and risk management in healthcare
- To provider a national voice on quality improvement and risk management initiatives in healthcare
- To facilitate opportunities for communication, cooperation, and exchange of ideas and experiences in healthcare quality
- To facilitate training and continuing education in healthcare quality
- To establish and maintain a support network for those actively involved in healthcare quality improvement and risk management
- To promote professional ethics as they relate to practice of healthcare quality improvement and risk management
- To develop and foster alliance with related national and international bodies
- To organize seminars, workshops, lectures, publish journals, newsletters and other periodicals, as its contribution towards educating healthcare practitioners and the general public on the practice of quality healthcare
- To exchange ideas and knowledge freely between and amongst members
- To establish, visit or hire any centre or use any means of social communication in furtherance of its aims
- To organize and operate mediums exclusively for the sustenance of healthcare quality which operations shall be charitable and humanitarian. Its activities shall not be conducted in a manner beneficial only to its members neither shall it engage in any activity geared towards making profit from it’s members
- To engage in any other activities as may be necessary to further the attainment of the objects for which it is established