Basia Kutryba

Basia Kutryba is the co-founder of the first quality institute in CEE and a Senior Adviser at  National Centre for Quality Assessment in Health Care (NCQA) in Krakow,  Poland. She has played the major role in the development of  Polish national, JCAHO based accreditation system and in quality improvement initiatives in other ECC countries as well as in the Middle East. 

President of the EU Expert Group on Patient Safety and Quality of care; head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Developing Quality and Safety in Health Systems in Krakow.

She is the founding member of the Polish Society for Quality Promotion in Health Care (TPJ -1993) and its Vice-president; also a Fellow of the European Society for Quality in Healthcare.