Quality Circle in Prenatal Diagnostics, a model project for doctors and counsellors in the field.

Particularly worth mentioning are the representative survey on prenatal diagnostics published in July 2006, the flyer entitled “Prenatal Diagnostics as Initial Information for Counselling, Methods and Help” (Pränataldiagnostik als Erstinformation zu Beratung, Methoden und Hilfen), as well as the model project ending in 2007, “Quality Circle in Prenatal Diagnostics” to improve the cooperation between doctors and counselling services.

Many indicators of good practice emerged - including national measures such as creation of a focal point for HRD, people development programmes, and creation of standards by certification of jobs - and enterprise measures such as the raising of funds for training through a mandatory levy, quality circles which encourage team work and engagement in performance improvement, the concept of lifelong learning shared by enterprises and post-secondary institutes, training oriented to future roles for the individual, and a community approach to training.