Accreditation is the process of implementing the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Standards for general practices.The RACGP Standards provide a recognised national benchmark demonstrating the Practice’s commitment to quality and safety. Practices seek accreditation because they want to do their best and view this as another step towards excellence in patient care.

AGPAL recently reaccredited the Practice against the 5th edition of the RACGP standards, following an onsite assessment which takes place every three years.

The accrediation was extremely successful with the following commendations noted by the assessors:

• The quality of clinical notes was excellent
• The use of data management to ensure important clinical information was up to date was excellent, and the rates of recording are well above average
• The Treatment Room was extremely well organised and run
• The Quality Improvement process was one of the best they’d seen.

 

This was a real team effort and the reaccreditation recognises the high quality healthcare provided to patients by the team, and the systems and processes that support that delivery.