by QPA | Jul 14, 2026 | News, Practice Spotlight
“The whole accreditation journey probably improved team cohesion. We just came together and got through it instead of just one person trying to do it all.” For Shae Goldspink, quality in general practice starts with relationships. “Tumba’s a small close-knit regional...
by Paul Mara | Jun 25, 2026 | News
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...
by QPA | Apr 30, 2026 | News, Team profiles
Quality, care and what accreditation really reveals Dr Melinda Griffiths did not set out expecting general practice to define so much of her professional life. She began in hospitals as a nurse at 17, later trained in medicine, and initially thought her career would...
by QPA | Apr 29, 2026 | News, Practice Spotlight
Dr Kelly Lai, Banyo Clinic Some general practices become more than a place people visit when they are unwell. Over time, they become part of family stories, milestones, difficult seasons and everyday life in a community. Banyo Clinic is one of those practices. Last...
by Paul Mara | Aug 13, 2025 | News
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...
by Paul Mara | Mar 19, 2025 | News
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...
