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Die Gesellschafterversammlung der Bundes-geschaftsstelle Qualitatssicherung (BQS) hatHerrn Dr. Christof Veit mit Wirkung zum 15.Mai 2007 zum neuen Geschaftsfuhrer derBQS berufen. Herr Dr. Veit leitete bisher dieLandesgeschaftsstelle der Externen Qua-litatssicherung (EQS) in Hamburg. Danebenist er bisher Geschaftsfuhrer der quant, Ser-vice fur das Gesundheitswesen GmbH inHamburg.

Der Arzt Dr. Veit ist seit vielen Jahren auf Lan-desebene in die Umsetzung des BQS-Verfah-rens eingebunden, daneben wirkt er bisher inverschiedenen Gremien der BQS mit. Er istdaher mit der Materie bestens vertraut undgenießt in der Branche hohe Akzeptanz.Nach Auffassung der Gesellschafter der BQSbringt Herr Dr. Christof Veit damit die bestenVoraussetzungen mit, die bisherige hervorra-gende Arbeit der BQS fortzusetzen und dane-ben die BQS fur die neuen kunftigen Aufga-

ben zu rusten. Mit Blick auf das Vergabever-fahren zur Ubernahme von Qualitatssiche-rungsaufgaben seitens des GemeinsamenBundesausschusses (G-BA) mussen dieSchwerpunktaufgaben der BQS – die Verfah-rensentwicklung, die Durchfuhrung und Er-gebnisdarstellung der einrichtungsubergrei-fenden Qualitatssicherung fur Vertragsarzte,fur zugelassene Krankenhauser und die sek-torubergreifende Qualitatssicherung – neufokussiert werden.

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