Latest news

25 August 2020

Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on allergy and immunology services
Earlier this year the IQAS and QPIDS accreditation teams collaborated with the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) and UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network (UKPIN) to identify the impact… Read more...

28 July 2020

QPIDS standards update training session
The new QPIDS standards will be launched on Tuesday 1 September. To provide services with support and an overview of the standards, we will be running a standards update session.… Read more...

16 June 2020

Restarting accreditation assessments
We’re pleased to announce that we are aiming to restart accreditation assessments in September. This means that services can submit their self-assessment from 1 July, ready for an assessment from… Read more...

27 May 2020

COVID-19 questionnaire for allergy and immunology services
All allergy and immunology services in the United Kingdom are invited to complete a COVID-19 questionnaire. This has been designed to obtain information about service provision to inform any guidance… Read more...

19 May 2020

Results from the 2019 QPIDS annual census
In 2019, 35 services completed the QPIDS annual census, making it the largest survey since the initiative began. Individual reports were sent to services so they could benchmark their service… Read more...

16 March 2020

COVID-19 guidance
In order to support efforts to contain and mitigate against threats posed by the coronavirus outbreak, the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Accreditation Unit has decided to postpone all QPIDS… Read more...

19 September 2019

Launch of public consultation
The QPIDS standards were last reviewed in 2016. As part of our ongoing process for review and improvement, a multidisciplinary sub-group of the QPIDS steering group have been working on… Read more...

12 July 2019

QPIDS in RCP Medical Journal
Following the 2018 QPIDS census, the clinical lead for the QPIDS scheme, Dr Claire Bethune and Dr Richard Herriot, published a piece on the findings from the census results. The… Read more...

8 February 2019

2018 Census Results
Following the submission of the May 2018 QPIDS census, a copy of the census questions and results can be found here. The census provides a valuable snapshot of immunology services… Read more...

27 February 2018

2017 QPIDS Annual census published
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to complete the census, which was run in May 2017 by the QPIDS scheme. Both registered and non-registered services were invited to… Read more...

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