Practice Accreditation
Practice Accreditation
This page provides information on general practice accreditation.
Accreditation is a set of formal standards that hold a profession accountable.
Health care accreditation is defined as, 'A formal process to ensure delivery of safe, high quality health care, based on standards and processes devised and developed by health care professionals for health care services' (Australian Comission on Safety and Quality in Health Care).
The process is designed to ensure practices can interpret and understand the standards, identify areas within the standards they are not currently meeting and access support to make improvements.
Why is accreditation important?
Accreditation is necessary to ensure safe high quality care is delivered to patients.
Accredited practices are also able to access Medicare Practice Incentive Payments.
RACGP Standards for General Practices (3rd Edition)
The RACGP Standards for General Practices (3rd Edition) demonstrates the commitment of Australian GPs to high quality care.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has developed accreditation standards for GPs.
These standards are used by general practice accreditation agencies.
The standards cover areas such as:
- practice services
- rights and needs of patients
- quality assurance and education
- practice administration
- physical factors
Read more about the RACGP practice standards
http://www.racgp.org.au/standards
How can the Division help with accreditation?
The Division can
- Prepare and support practices with intial RACGP accreditation and re-accreditation
- Explain and assist practices optimise their access to PIP payments
- Provide setup training and support for the IT and data management systems necessary to access PIP incentives
Accreditation related downloads
More information
Contact Maria Pipicella at the Division