Clinical Excellence Foundation

Founded in November 2007, the North East Clinical Excellence Foundation became a Public Charitable Trust (Indian Trust Act 1882) in January 2010. The Foundation works for the benefit of citizens of India in respect of the objects below without discrimination of caste, religion, creed or sex.

A. Main Objects

1. Promote  clinical excellence and better health care system responsive to people's need by facilitating clinical governance, continuous professional development, education, training and institutional capacity building through innovative proactive actions and collaborative working with government and healthcare institutions both in public and private sectors.
2. Strive to position itself as a leader dedicated to promote clinical excellence and healthcare by combining the best that the specialised institutions and individuals have to offer.
3. Strive to position itself in the north east region of India as the principal mechanism to channelise private competencies - including financial, technical and managerial - to promote clinical excellence and healthcare to appropriately complement governmental competencies and efforts in this regard.
4. Ensure that robust, effective, strategic and statutory frameworks are in place so as to create an environment for clinical excellence and safer clinical practice.
5. Ensure that policies, procedures and practices at the level of government, institutions as well as individual practice are robust enough to ensure safe, efficient and excellent clinical practice so as to avoid needless deaths and sufferings of the patients, relatives and public in general.
6. To that effect ensure transformation of the public and private hospitals and other related establishments such as diagnostic centre and clinics so that they are able to offer ethical, safe and excellent clinical care to the public at a just and affordable cost.
7. Pilot and suggest high impact applications and interventions to ensure effective, efficient and safer clinical practices that can be viably implemented by demonstrating feasibility, cost effectiveness and power to guide improvement.
8. Ensure it acts as a source of expert knowledge and information to help government and institutions address challenges, immediate, medium and long term, and offer public assurance, unbiased advice and information in the field of healthcare.
9. Develop, promote and run an accreditation programme (or collaborate with established programmes as appropriate) for the hospitals, diagnostics centers, clinics, clinical laboratories and diagnostic centers with a view to facilitate continuous improvement of services meeting accepted national and international standards and help public gain confidence in services provided by these entities so as to be able to make informed choices.

B. Instrumental, incidental or Ancillary Objects

1. Identify major opportunity areas in delivery of health care mechanisms.
2. Show the proof of concept of ideas by implementing pilot.
3. Craft virtual North East Clinical Excellence Foundation to be the repository and preferred site for online training, continuous professional development and any information on solutions, benchmarks, best practices and successful roll-outs of effective initiatives.
4. Undertake practical research and develop concept papers when necessary in alliance with the best institutions in India and outside to enable government and other organizations in promoting better healthcare.
5. Develop directory of services, databases and network.
6. Work with specific departments/programs to identify opportunities.
7. Document case studies of successful projects and applications already developed and functioning in the field and facilitate their adoption.
8. Conduct conferences, retreats and workshops likely to advance the objectives of the Trust.
9. Develop papers, reports, films, videos and other multi-media presentations and ensure effective dissemination of the learning and output of the Trust.
10. Create an active learning community among health professionals, civic players and policy makers.
11. Undertake consulting assignments for third parties on health and medical care delivery issues.
12. Organise surveys into the satisfaction of the service users of hospital and other related institutions, there by producing league table to encourage healthy competition and collaboration to improve service and care.
13. Organise exchange programs for staff and people involved in health and medical care and to provide training of work India or abroad.
14. Liaise, cooperate or associate, represents, collaborate, with national, international educational organizations, with any Government Departments or National International Institutions concerned with the furtherance of health and medical care.
15. Carry out, implement, promote, sponsor, assist and / or establish and activity for promotion of better health and medical care, publication of any books, literature, newspapers etc., and / or for organizing lectures and / or seminars likely to advance these objects or for giving merit awards, for giving scholarships, loans and / or any other assistance to deserving candidates or other scholars or persons to enable them to prosecute their studies or academic pursuits or researches and for establishing conducting and/or assisting, any institutions, fund, trust, association etc., having any one of the aforesaid objects, as one of its objects by giving donations or otherwise in any other manner in order to implement any of the above mentioned objects or purposes.
16. Make donations and/or give grants to any persons, companies, societies, foundations, institutions, universities and/or trust who have objects similar to any one or more of the objects of the company for the purpose of promoting, assisting and/or encouraging the carrying and/or achievement of such objects or object.
17. Provide endow, furnish and / or fit out any of its property with all necessary furniture, instruments and other equipment and maintain and/or manage offices, premises center, institutions and other establishments or institutions for the furtherance and/or advancement of any one or more of the objects of the Company.
18. Acquire, buy, sell, market, distribute, exchange and/or otherwise dispose of, store, hold, package, transport, use experiment, with handle, in educational equipment in order to achieve the objects of the Company.
19. Purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any immovable or moveable property and any rights or privileges for the attainment of the Company objects.
20. Construct, maintain and alter any building or erection and to provide the same with all proper and necessary fixtures, furniture, fittings, apparatus, appliances, conveniences and accommodations for the purposes of the activities of the Trust.
21. Raise funds and accept donations (in cash or kind) subscriptions, grants of money, securities, and property of any kind and / or to undertake and accept the management of transfer of any endowment, trust fund or donation not inconsistent with the objects of the Trust.
22. Open and operate a banking account or banking accounts and to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, drafts, cheques, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or transferable instruments.
23. Print and publish and periodicals, books, journals, booklets and / or leaflets in furtherance of its objects.
24. Accept grants from any governments or agencies or authorities, public bodies, corporations, companies or persons or money, movable and immovable property, donations, gifts, subscriptions, devices, bequests, and other assistance with a view to promoting the objects of the Trust and in receiving any gift of property to take the same either unconditionally or subject to any special conditions which may be prescribed by the donor in writing.
25. Promote or assist in the promotion of any trust, company or association having objects similar to the object of the Trust.
26. Establish and support professorship, fellowships and lectureships, scholarships, chairs and prizes at any institution dealing with health and medical care issues.
27. Establish, maintain and support libraries and reading rooms either virtual or real for advancement of better health and medical care.
28. Establish branches and offices in different parts of India and abroad.
29. Do all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.