Society for Quality Management and Patient Safety is an online group of over 23,000 Vietnamese healthcare professionals, actively exchanging ideas for improving healthcare quality in Vietnam. In January 2018, this group coalesced to launch the Centre for Healthcare Improvement (CHIR), an NGO with the goal of accelerating the pace of change and ‘make healthcare better for patients, professionals and population’. CHIR’s first partner is Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), to bring Australia’ standard of care to Vietnam.