News and Updates

The RACGP has published its Standards for general practices (6th edition) marking the beginning of an important transition for general practice accreditation. The Standards and other associated resources produced by the College is available from the RACGP's 6th...

Owning or managing a general practice comes with significant responsibility. On any given day, you’re solving problems, managing finances, supporting your team, responding to patients, resolving conflicts and trying to keep the practice moving forward. Often, you’re...

QPA Discussion Paper - Download here QPA Letter of support for pricing model - Download here   Executive Summary General practice accreditation was one of a number of strategic policy initiatives from the 1990’s that were aimed to support quality of care and...

My background is in rural generalist practice in a small rural community and hospital. Obstetrics, anaesthetics, private general practice and over 38 years of getting out of bed 3 or 4 times a week and every weekend treating community acute care or highway...

You can call this a mea culpa, if you like. General Practice Accreditation is one of several initiatives developed since the early 1990s that aimed to enhance the quality of care provided to Australians by general practitioners, and to equip the general practice...

Closely following on from previous embarrassing reports of a practice being publicly outed in major press outlets for challenges with vaccine storage and cold chain, comes another breakdown with vaccination procedures, in this case with the incorrect vaccine being...

This year marks the twenty-fifth year since the Practice Incentives Program (PIP), and subsequently the practice component of the Workforce Incentive Program (WIP) was linked to general practice accreditation. These programs annually contributed $830 million to...