by qpaadmin | Apr 29, 2026 | News
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 qpaadmin | Apr 29, 2026 | News
Catherine Ryan: why engagement is often the clearest sign of quality in general practice Catherine Ryan did not plan on building a career in general practice. In fact, she initially chose a very different direction, studying rural science/agriculture at university....
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...
by Paul Mara | Mar 7, 2025 | News
Its time to tell a personal story. I did rural medicine because of a horse called Sospel. At the end of 1971, my final year in high school, I was conned by some mates into going to Randwick Racecourse. I put $4 – a small fortune at that time – on a horse...
by Paul Mara | Jan 24, 2025 | News
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...
