Quality First: Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework: Health and Justice and Sexual Assault Referral Centres

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Health and Justice & SAAS Quality Toolkit (updated February 2025)

This toolkit supports quality across Health and Justice and Sexual Assault and Abuse Services from April 2024, supporting NHS England meet its statutory responsibilities in commissioning of quality health services for the Health and Justice sector.

The toolkit supports Integrated Care Boards, NHS England regional teams, partners and stakeholders understand Health and Justice services and ensures NHS quality assurance, oversight and improvement is adapted/adopted for those services.

The toolkit replaces the Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework (QAIF) published in 2018 and can be found at 2024 Health and Justice (H&J) & Sexual Assault and Abuse Services (SAAS) Quality Toolkit – Updated February 2025 – National Health & Justice & Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) Communication, Newsletters & Bulletins – FutureNHS Collaboration Platform.

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This toolkit replaces the Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework (QAIF) published in 2018.

Updated February 2025.