RACGP has updated its definition of a general practice for the purpose of accreditation to ensure all general practices providing comprehensive, patient-centred, whole-person and continuous care are eligible for accreditation against the Standards.
The purpose of updating the definition is to facilitate the inclusion of genuine and innovative general practice models of care previously excluded from accreditation. Those newly included non-traditional general practices may include mobile services (such as outreach disability services) or those servicing a specific patient cohort within facilities (eg Residential aged care facilities (RACFs) or disability homes).
The new definition of a general practice includes a practice or health service to seek accreditation:
it must provide comprehensive, patient-centred, whole-person and continuous care; and
its services must be predominantly* of a general practice nature.
* more than 50% of the practice’s general practitioners’ clinical time (i.e. collectively), and more than 50% of services for which Medicare benefits are claimed or could be claimed (from that practice) are in general practice. Learn more.
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