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About the UK Quality Infrastructure Hub
The hub is built to support the delivery of the UK’s quality infrastructure. It will facilitate collaboration and support coordination between the UKQI institutions, quality infrastructure bodies and partners, and the government. Through information sharing, collaboration, and signposting, the hub will help shape a common understanding and articulation of UKQI and other related initiatives such as the Net Zero National Quality Infrastructure.
What is the UK Quality Infrastructure?
The UK Quality Infrastructure can support the development and delivery of government policy in many ways:
- Providing a complement or an alternative to regulation.
- Accelerating innovation and the adoption of new technologies through giving confidence to innovators and investors.
- Ensuring that the UK can securely harness and exploit resilient digital technologies.
- Supporting trade and trade policy and opening global markets by developing standards that embody globally agreed good practice and providing confidence that standards are met.
- Enabling market and policy safeguards through scientific rigour and technical excellence.
- Supporting the UK’s global influence through leading roles in global networks.
This work is delivered by QI organisations:
BSI
The British Standards Institution is the UK’s National Standards Body responsible for producing national and international standards.
UKAS
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the UK’s National Accreditation Body. UKAS accreditation assures the competence, impartiality and integrity of testing, calibration, inspection and certification bodies.
NPL
The National Physical Laboratory is the UK's National Metrology Institute, providing the measurement capability that underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life.
- Representation of UK stakeholders in global and national standards-making.
- Recognition as the UK's National Standards Body (NSB) through a government Memorandum of Understanding.
- Support for national priorities, including economic growth, trade, innovation, net zero, sustainability, product safety, and national security.
- Advocacy for the UK's voice in international and regional standards bodies, including ISO, IEC, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, and ITU.
- UKAS is appointed as the UK's National Accreditation Body by the Accreditation Regulations 2009 and operates under a Memorandum of Understanding with UK government. It is the only body recognised by government for the accreditation, against international standards, of organisations providing calibration, testing, certification, inspection, verification, validation and medical diagnostic services.
- Our accreditation activities and development projects range from physiological diagnostic services, forensics and biobanking to nuclear new build, energy management systems and building information modelling.
- UKAS also responds to the challenges and opportunities from new data and digitally driven industries, working with government and agency partners.
- UKAS is a highly active and influential member of International Accreditation Forum and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation whose aim is to harmonise accreditation and conformity assessment activities around the globe, recognise technical equivalence of accredited conformity assessment through mutual recognition agreements, and to help global trade through the removal of Technical Barriers to Trade.
- Development of evidence bases and test and evaluation frameworks for regulatory and non-regulatory interventions.
- Development of measurement and technical standards to support resilience of critical national infrastructure
- Development of measurement and technical standards for emotional and climate monitoring.
Why join?
- Learn more about the UKQI and its partners
- Connect and network with your peers and other industry experts
- Collaborate on UKQI initiatives
- Stay updated on latest news and updates
- Access relevant resources
- Share and contribute to best practice
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