by QPA | Aug 24, 2026 | Team profiles
After 26 years as a QPA surveyor and more than three decades working across primary care, Collean Guest has seen accreditation evolve dramatically. During that time, she’s worked across almost every corner of Australian general practice, and despite all the...
by QPA | Jul 6, 2026 | Team profiles
While many parts of QPA involve direct day-to-day support for practices, Joanne Oakes works one step behind that – helping ensure the systems, tools and team support are strong enough for the whole program to run well. As Manager of Practice Onboarding and...
by QPA | Apr 30, 2026 | 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 Paul Mara | Mar 7, 2025 | News, Team profiles
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...
