Allan Dalziel Receives Patient Partnership Quality Mark (PPQM) and Clinical Management Quality Mark (CMQM) Awards

Patient Partnership Quality Mark (PPQM)

McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic, Glasgow 2007-2009, 2010-2012

In September 2006, the College’s Lay Partnership Group launched the Patient Partnership Quality Mark (PPQM) as a component of the College’s Safety, Quality, and Excellence initiative. The PPQM is awarded to Practices that demonstrate excellence in meeting patient expectations. In December 2007 Dr Allan Dalziel from the McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic, Glasgow, was one of the first to achieve the ‘Patient Partnership Quality Mark’ (PPQM), awarded by The College of Chiropractors. In 2010 the McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic in Glasgow, has once more been recognised with the Patient Partnership Quality Mark (PPQM).

The McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic run by Dr Allan Dalziel has demonstrated excellence in meeting patient expectations in a range of areas, as defined and judged by the College of Chiropractors Lay Partnership Group (LPG), including the following:

Mr Hew Helps, Chair of the LPG, presented the awards for 2010-2012 at the College's Third Annual Awards Dinner held at The Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, London, on Wednesday 20 January 2010.

Clinical Management Quality Mark (CMQM) Award

McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic, Glasgow 2010-2012

A second quality mark - the Clinical Management Quality Mark (CMQM) – was launched in 2008/9 to complement the PPQM. The CMQM recognises excellence in terms of operating within a structured and managed clinical environment. Applicants must demonstrate excellence in a range of areas including clinical audit, risk management, incident reporting, outcome measurement, patient satisfaction, emergency procedures and operational policy.

The McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic in Glasgow has been recognised with the Clinical Management Quality Mark. Dr Allan Dalziel has demonstrated excellence in a range of areas including clinical audit, risk management, incident reporting, outcome measurement, patient satisfaction, emergency procedures and operational policy.

The awards for 2010-2012 were presented by Tim Jay, College President at the College's Third Awards Dinner held at The Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, London, on Wednesday 20 January 2010.

The McTimoney Chiropractic Clinic in Glasgow is the only practice in Scotland to be awarded these two prestigious awards.

About The College of Chiropractors

The College of Chiropractors is an academic, professional membership body with over 1300 members and the following objectives:

Members and Fellows of the College have always embraced postgraduate training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the public interest, pre-empting any statutory requirement. Since its incorporation in 1999, the College has worked with an eminent Advisory Board, which supports the College in its aim to achieve a Royal Charter to signal the importance of chiropractic in complementing the mainstream healthcare professions, and to provide impetus to build an integrated chiropractic service around patients.

The College actively fosters patient and public involvement through its Lay Partnership Panel, a committee comprising patients, members of the public and chiropractors