ASF Health Standards: Standards 1 to 63
These are the ASF Health Standards. Each standard is numbered, stands on its own, and has its own page and PDF document. Read the standards in order, or go straight to the one that covers your service.
Who each standard applies to
Mandatory for all. Every facility meets these standards. Standard 1 (Assessment, Care Planning and Safety) is the basis for all others.
By setting and context. Other standards apply only to the services a facility provides. A hospital, an ambulatory clinic or a primary care unit picks up the standards that match its services.
Context categories
A facility works in one context category. When more than one applies, the first one takes priority.
Humanitarian settingsEmergencies, armed conflict, camps, refugee or displaced populations. Takes priority over the other categories.
TransitionCountries and services in transition, with fragile or developing health systems. Applies when Humanitarian does not.
StandardAll other facilities. The default category.
Standards
- Standard 1Assessment, Care Planning and Safety
- Standard 2Governance and Safety Culture
- Standard 3Medicines and Pain
- Standard 4Reserved
- Standard 5Blood Bank
- Standard 6Day Clinic and Day Surgery
- Standard 7Emergency Dispatch
- Standard 8Fertility Clinic
- Standard 9Field Hospital
- Standard 10Hospice and Palliative Care
- Standard 11Procedure Units, Endoscopy and Interventional Care
- Standard 12Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Standard 13Mobile Clinic and Outreach
- Standard 14Occupational Health
- Standard 15Optical and Hearing
- Standard 16Paediatric Care
- Standard 17Pharmacy
- Standard 18Physiotherapy
- Standard 19Specimen Collection Point
- Standard 20Sports Medicine
- Standard 21Urgent Care
- Standard 22Academic Medical Centre
- Standard 23Multi-Site Governance
- Standard 24Medical Tourism
- Standard 25Health and Migration
- Standard 26Dialysis and Renal Replacement
- Standard 27Telemedicine
- Standard 28Long-Term Care
- Standard 29Home Care
- Standard 30Fitness and Wellness
- Standard 31Dental Care
- Standard 32Aesthetic and Cosmetic Procedures (non-surgical only)
- Standard 33Laboratory
- Standard 34Rehabilitation
- Standard 35Critical Care
- Standard 36Hospital Emergency Department
- Standard 37Neonatal and Paediatric Hospital Care
- Standard 38Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
- Standard 39Humanitarian and Emergency Operations
- Standard 40Nutrition and Dietetics
- Standard 41Complementary and Traditional Medicine
- Standard 42Aftercare, Follow-Up and Post-Discharge Safety
- Standard 43Organ and Tissue Transplant
- Standard 44Access, Findability and Wayfinding
- Standard 45Reception, Waiting and Health Information
- Standard 46Hospital Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
- Standard 47Sepsis, Clinical Deterioration and Venous Thromboembolism
- Standard 48Falls, Pressure Injury and Safe Handover
- Standard 49Advance Care Planning, Palliative Needs and Dignity
- Standard 50Diagnostic Imaging
- Standard 51Oncology and Cancer Care
- Standard 52Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Standard 53Allergology
- Standard 54Dermatology and Skin Clinics
- Standard 55Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery
- Standard 56Cardiology, Outpatient and Cardiac Procedures
- Standard 57Radiotherapy
- Standard 58Inpatient Ward Care
- Standard 59Outpatient Medical Specialties
- Standard 60Surgical and Specialty Clinics
- Standard 61Falls Prevention
- Standard 62Penitentiary Health Services
- Standard 63Safe Handover