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ACHS Standards Odyssey 2014:

A journey from 1974 – to 2014

“Celebrating 40 years of supporting high standards for quality health care”.

• Conjoint Board (AMA)

• 1968 Victoria starts on accreditation trail

• 1973 $25,000 Commonwealth Govt

↘“Selling the process of peer review to clinicians was also extraordinarily difficult because it required a total change of attitude on their part. Until then, they had considered themselves God-like figures and they not appreciate, at all, some external organisations coming in to comment on their performance.”

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