Standards library
Chapter, standard and objective element tree with tier, department mapping and applicability. Mark what does not apply to your hospital and it drops out of scoring with a recorded reason.
6th Edition · effective 1 January 2025
Your accreditation file should be ready on any given Tuesday.
NABHDesk holds every objective element of the NABH 6th Edition, the evidence behind it, the SOP that governs it and the indicator that proves it — with clinical data pulled straight from your HIS instead of retyped by your quality nurse.
Works standalone, with Caresoft HIS, or with any HIS through our API. Excel import if you already have the data prepared.
Readiness boardSample hospital
AAC
Access, Assessment and Continuity of Care
92%
COP
Care of Patients
78%
MOM
Management of Medication
84%
PRE
Patient Rights and Education
96%
IPC
Infection Prevention and Control
71%
PSQ
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
63%
ROM
Responsibilities of Management
88%
FMS
Facility Management and Safety
74%
HRM
Human Resource Management
81%
IMS
Information Management System
58%
Ten chapters. About a hundred standards. Roughly 639 objective elements, each graded Core, Commitment, Achievement or Excellence.
10Chapters, five patient-centric and five organisation-centric
~639Objective elements tracked individually with owner and target date
32Quality indicators, most computed from HIS data automatically
3Access levels: platform, hospital administrator, department user
What it covers
Eight module groups, one evidence trail
Most assessment findings are not clinical failures. They are tracking failures — a committee that met without minutes, an indicator filed for nine months, an SOP whose review date passed last year.
AAC / COP / MOM …
Scoring
Gap assessment
Score each objective element, record the finding, assign an owner and a target date. Chapter-wise readiness and a projected score update as the team closes items.
Version control
Document control
Policies, SOPs, manuals and formats with version history, approval workflow, review-due alerts, staff read-acknowledgement and obsolete-copy control.
Minutes
Committees
Year planned in advance for every mandatory committee, with agenda, attendance, minutes and an action tracker that carries open points into the next meeting.
Monthly
Quality indicators
The mandatory indicator set with numerator, denominator, target and trend. Computable indicators arrive from the HIS; only observation-based ones need typing.
RCA / CAPA
Incidents
Near miss to sentinel event, with root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action, effectiveness check and closure — linked back to the objective elements involved.
Checklists
Audits and drills
Medical record audit, prescription audit, hand hygiene observation, fire and disaster mock drills, internal quality audit with non-conformity tracking.
Registers
HR, facility, licences
Credentialing and privileging, registration validity, training matrix, equipment inventory with PPM and calibration due dates, and the statutory licence register.
Assessment day
Evidence pack
Export the chapter-wise evidence set, indicator trends and closed findings as one pack, so nobody is hunting for a file while the assessor waits.
Why it is different
The data an assessor asks for is already inside your HIS
Average length of stay, discharge turnaround, LAMA percentage, mortality rate, lab report turnaround, re-dos, medication errors, fall rate. Every competing product makes a nurse type these into a spreadsheet each month. NABHDesk reads them.
Caresoft HIS, connected
Hospitals running Caresoft HIS switch on the connector and monthly indicator values start arriving with their numerator and denominator intact, ready for the quality team to review rather than assemble.
Any other HIS, through the API
A documented, token-authenticated JSON endpoint accepts the same metric keys from any vendor. Your existing HIS partner implements one POST and the connection is done.
Excel and CSV, if that is what you have
Download our template, fill it the way your team already keeps the data, upload it. Rows are validated before anything is committed, and bad rows come back with the reason.
Nothing at all, to start
Plenty of hospitals begin by scoring themselves honestly against every objective element with no integration whatsoever. The connectors can wait until the gap list is under control.
The path
From first gap assessment to assessment day
Set up the hospital
Choose the programme, list departments and services, and mark the objective elements that do not apply to you.
Score yourself honestly
A blunt first score is more useful than a flattering one. It becomes the baseline you show improvement against at management review.
Assign and close
Every gap gets an owner, an action plan and a target date. Reminders chase the owner, not the quality manager.
Run the routine
Committees meet on schedule, indicators file monthly, audits and drills happen, incidents get root-caused and closed.
Mock assessment
Run an internal assessment in assessor view, see the projected score chapter by chapter, and fix what is still red.
Assessment and after
Export the evidence pack. Then keep going — surveillance and re-accreditation are the same routine, continued.
Questions
What hospitals ask first
What is the NABH 6th Edition and when did it take effect?
The 6th Edition of the NABH accreditation standards for hospitals was launched in September 2024 and came into effect on 1 January 2025. From that date, new accreditation applications are assessed against the 6th Edition. It places noticeably more weight on digital health adoption than earlier editions.
How many chapters, standards and objective elements does it have?
Ten chapters - five patient-centric (AAC, COP, MOM, PRE, IPC) and five organisation-centric (PSQ, ROM, FMS, HRM, IMS) - with about a hundred standards and roughly 639 objective elements. Each objective element is graded Core, Commitment, Achievement or Excellence.
Does NABHDesk replace the official NABH standard book?
No. NABHDesk gives you plain-language implementation guidance, evidence tracking and scoring against every objective element. Hospitals should still work from the official NABH publication, which remains the authoritative source.
Do we need Caresoft HIS to use it?
No. NABHDesk works standalone. If you run Caresoft HIS, indicator data flows in automatically. Any other HIS can connect through our documented API, and hospitals with neither can upload prepared Excel or CSV files.
Who in the hospital uses it day to day?
Typically the quality manager and accreditation coordinator drive it, department heads own their objective elements and SOPs, and nursing, IPC, pharmacy, biomedical and HR teams file their own data. There are three access levels so each person sees only what they need.
Can it be used for SHCO or Entry Level certification?
Yes. The programme is selected per hospital, and the objective element set, committee list and indicator set adjust to that programme.
From the blog
Notes for quality managers
Filing NABH quality indicators without drowning your nursing staff
Most of the mandatory indicator set already exists inside your HIS. Stop typing it twice.
The hospital committees NABH expects you to run - and the minutes that prove it
A committee without minutes does not exist as far as an assessor is concerned.
NABH 6th Edition: what actually changed for your quality team
The chapter structure survived. The expectations around digital records, indicator evidence and patient safety did not.
Next step
See it against your own chapter list
A walkthrough takes about forty minutes with your quality team. Tell us your bed count and the programme you are preparing for, and we will set up a hospital instance you can score in during the session.