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26 April 2021

Allergy awareness week 2021
The 26 April 2021 marks the start of the spring allergy awareness week with this years focusing on hay fever. A leading charity estimated that there are 21 million allergy… Read more...

7 April 2021

Allergy and Immunology census 2021
The Royal College of Physicians is working in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust to conduct a census for all allergy and immunology services in the UK. Through service participation, we… Read more...

11 December 2020

Virtual IQAS training session
IQAS accreditation virtual training session Thursday 22 April 9:30am - 11:30am The IQAS accreditation programme will be holding a virtual service training session to help support services on their accreditation… Read more...

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...

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...

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 IQAS… Read more...

30 April 2019

New IQAS standards launched for all allergy services in April 2019
IQAS has launched updated standards for allergy services in April 2019, for both general and specialised allergy services. The standards have been released alongside a set of clinical quality and workforce… Read more...

20 December 2018

Revised IQAS standards
The public consultation for the revised IQAS standards closed on 16 November. Thank you to those that provided their feedback. We have collated the feedback we have received and will… Read more...

1 September 2018

Draft revised IQAS Standards
Significant work has been undertaken over the past 18 months on revising the IQAS standards. The revised standards have been aligned with the PAS (Publicly Available Standards) 1616. The standards… Read more...

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