TPFS accredited units in the UK

The Pelvic Floor Society has an obligation to ensure high quality care is provided to patients with pelvic floor disorders. As such the society has strived to identify the components that make up the optimal pelvic floor service in terms of resource and process. These criteria have been assembled and their importance stratified by consensus to identify a benchmark of quality care which can be formally assessed to as part of an accreditation process .

We wish to invite all units to submit data to this accreditation process. A peer review carried out by at least 4 peers who are ordinary members of The Society will allow feedback as to whether these standards are met or where components of unit performance may be improved. It is hoped that, if carried out correctly, such a process will benefit its members in terms of recognition if standards are met and providing leverage for more resource if standards are not met. More importantly the patient will benefit from confidence that quality assurance is guaranteed as far as possible.

The UK units who currently hold accreditation are as follows

• Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals, London
• St Mark's Hospital, The National Bowel Hospital, London
• Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Bristol Hospitals
• Southampton University Hospital
• Manchester University Hospital
• University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
• Nottingham University Hospitals
• University Hospital Plymouth*
• The Royal London Hospital*

(*recently expired, and preparing reaccreditation)