High quality healthcare is now recognized as health care that has these three characteristics: the use of practice guidelines or standards, the implementation of constantly upgraded quality improvement techniques, and the implementation of outcome determination and management. In summary, quality health care is how well the system of health care providers keeps its members in good health or deals with them them when they are sick.

Such programmes even make it possible to acquire IT skills on an incremental basis - by taking just the courses required to meet specific industry qualifications. And there is such a crying need for qualified people in most IT areas, it is often possible for people taking certification programmes to find UK entry level positions in IT after their first few qualifications are completed.