News and Updates
Quality starts with relationships for Roths General Practice, Tumbarumba
“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...
Defining General Practice – Really?
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...
Seeing general practice from every angle ~ Dr Melinda Griffiths, GP Surveyor
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 head elsewhere. Instead, family circumstances led...
70 years of community care at 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 year, the clinic marked 70...
General Practice Accreditation – Fix it or Scrap it?
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...
Yet another vaccine mishap and accreditation failure
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...
Think rural and remote. Think different ~ Dr Paul Mara, QPA Founder & Managing Director
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 that came in...
25 years on – Has accreditation achieved its lofty ambitions?
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...