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ASF Health Standards v10
Every facility meets the Basis. Its setting and its context category then determine what else applies, and the facility declares the services it provides.
Version 10.0 · Approved by the ASF Expert Committee
Part 1
The Basis
Applies to every facility, whatever its size or type.
Part 2
Settings
The type of facility. A setting says which standards apply to it.
- Setting A: Hospital (overnight stay) · 29 criteria · in preparation
- Setting B: Ambulatory (no overnight stay) · 10 criteria · in preparation
- Setting C: Primary care · 11 criteria · in preparation
- Setting D: Long-term and community care · 13 criteria · in preparation
- Setting E: Transport provider · 5 criteria · in preparation
Hospital modules
- 3A: Assessment, Care Planning and Safety · 9 criteria · in preparation
- 3B: Surgical and Procedural Safety · 6 criteria · in preparation
- 3C: Medicines and Pain · 4 criteria · in preparation
- 3D: Environment and Accessibility · 10 criteria · in preparation
Part 3
Context categories
The setting where the facility works. When more than one applies, the first category below takes priority.
Category 1
Humanitarian settings
Emergencies, armed conflict, camps, and refugee or displaced populations.
Takes priority over the other categories.
Category 2
Transition
Countries and services in transition, with fragile or developing health systems.
Applies when Category 1 does not.
Category 3
Standard
All other facilities.
The default category.
Part 4
Standards
Numbered standards cover the services a facility provides. They start with the first specialty standard.
Published, later as cross-cutting topics
Cross-cutting topic
Governance and Safety Culture
Who is accountable for safety and quality, how policy is followed, how patient data is kept secure, and how serious incidents are investigated.
10 criteria · 28 documents · Published
Cross-cutting topic
Facility, Environment and Equipment
The physical environment: access, reception, waiting, water, equipment, shared spaces and facility risk.
10 criteria · 24 documents · Published
Cross-cutting topic
Sustainability
Environmental responsibility: strategy, reporting, procurement, energy use and climate resilience.
7 criteria · 17 documents · Published
Cross-cutting topic
Digital Care and AI
Digital care and artificial intelligence: how systems are introduced, monitored and made accountable.
8 criteria · 15 documents · Published
Standards in preparation
- Critical interfacility transfer (CT) · 46 criteria
- Service: Blood Bank · 11 criteria
- Service: Day Clinic and Day Surgery · 10 criteria
- Service: Emergency Dispatch · 16 criteria
- Service: Fertility Clinic · 19 criteria
- Service: Field Hospital · 31 criteria
- Service: Hospice and Palliative Care · 13 criteria
- Service: Injection and Procedure Centre · 18 criteria
- Service: Maternity · 20 criteria
- Service: Mobile Clinic and Outreach · 19 criteria
- Service: Occupational Health · 10 criteria
- Service: Optical and Hearing · 7 criteria
- Service: Paediatric Care · 14 criteria
- Service: Pharmacy · 12 criteria
- Service: Physiotherapy · 8 criteria
- Service: Specimen Collection Point · 10 criteria
- Service: Sports Medicine · 9 criteria
- Service: Urgent Care · 9 criteria
- Academic Medical Centre · 9 criteria
- Multi-Site Governance · 11 criteria
- Medical Tourism · 14 criteria
- Health and Migration · 13 criteria
- Dialysis and Renal Replacement · 12 criteria
- Telemedicine · 38 criteria
- Long-Term Care · 55 criteria
- Home Care · 48 criteria
- Fitness and Wellness · 11 criteria
- Dental Care · 25 criteria
- Aesthetic and Cosmetic Procedures · 6 criteria
- Laboratory · 59 criteria
- Rehabilitation · 10 criteria
- Critical Care · 10 criteria
- Hospital Emergency Department · 5 criteria
- Neonatal and Paediatric Hospital Care · 5 criteria
- Substance Use and Addiction Treatment · 5 criteria
- Humanitarian and Emergency Operations · 5 criteria
- Nutrition and Dietetics · 5 criteria
- Complementary and Traditional Medicine · 5 criteria
- Aftercare, Follow-Up and Post-Discharge Safety · 6 criteria
- Organ and Tissue Transplant · 10 criteria
- Access, Findability and Wayfinding · 5 criteria
- Reception, Waiting and Health Information · 5 criteria
- Hospital Disaster and Emergency Preparedness · 5 criteria
- Sepsis, Clinical Deterioration and Venous Thromboembolism · 5 criteria
- Falls, Pressure Injury and Safe Handover · 5 criteria
- Advance Care Planning, Palliative Needs and Dignity · 5 criteria
- Diagnostic Imaging · 13 criteria
- Oncology and Cancer Care · 14 criteria
- Psychiatry and Mental Health · 10 criteria