Meet the QPA Team
Helping practices see accreditation as an opportunity, not an exam ~ Collean Guest, Co-Surveyor
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 changes...
Helping quality stay practical behind the scenes ~ Joanne Oakes, Manager Practice Onboarding & Certification
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...
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 her...