A quality assurance system is a way of checking, through continuous monitoring and evaluation of your performance and through the collection of evidence, that your organisation is continuously improving what it does and how it does it. Quality assurance can also be a way of measuring what your organisation does against other organisations doing similar work or against set, recognised standards. The systems of checking your organisation's quality are on-going processes to help you ensure that you are always meeting the new standards that are continually being developed.